TexMaker configure: Cannot find control file 'reference.bcf'! - Did latex run successfully on your .tex file before you ran biber?

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I try to use achemso documentclass[journal=ancham,manuscript=article]{achemso} for writing paper in TexMaker but the references are all undefined.  When I run PDFLaTeX, PDFLaTeX, BibTeX, I got (my paper and reference files have the same name)

INFO - This is Biber 2.12 INFO - Logfile is 'paper_achemsoformat.blg'

ERROR - Cannot find control file 'paper_achemsoformat.bcf'! - Did latex run successfully on your .tex file before you ran biber? INFO - ERRORS: 1

Process exited with error(s)

I guess that something is conflict from my TexMaker setting. Because I wrote my previous paper with Biblatex and probably this time I should change the setting. Is my Bib(la)tex box in the configure is wrong? Now it is "C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.9/miktex/bin/x64/biber.exe" %

I also tested biber %.bcf but it doesn't work too.

moewe · Answer

You need to run BibTeX on your document, not Biber.

The achemso class brings its own set of .bst styles and the bibliography is supposed to be generated with those BibTeX styles. This means that achemso does not use biblatex by default (and probably should not be used with biblatex).

The log file and the editor settings both show that you are running Biber on your document. Biber can only be used with biblatex. Since achemso is using classical BibTeX you need to make sure to run BibTeX instead of Biber.

Essentially you need to follow Biblatex with Biber: Configuring my editor to avoid undefined citations in reverse: Make sure that your Bib(la)tex command reads bibtex % or bibtex %.aux.

TexMaker configure: Cannot find control file 'reference.bcf'! - Did latex run successfully on your .tex file before you ran biber?

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