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Minimalbeispiel:
\begin{filecontents*}{MeineBib.bib} @inbook{myerson2002handbook, title={Melt Crystallization}, booktitle={Handbook of Industrial Crystallization}, author={Ulrich, J.}, editor={Myerson, A. S.}, year={2002}, publisher={Butterworth-Heinemann}, address={Boston}, pages={161-179}, shorthand={Ulr02} } \end{filecontents*} \documentclass[12pt, bibliography=totoc, version=first, captions=tableheading]{scrreprt} \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} \usepackage[style=alphabetic, firstinits=true, isbn=false, maxbibnames=99, date=short, sorting=nyt, backend=bibtex8]{biblatex} \usepackage[babel, german=quotes]{csquotes} % Aussehen der Zitate \bibliography{MeineBib} \begin{document} Test\cite{myerson2002handbook} \printbibliography \end{document}