I think you are also still missing a % sign at the beginning of the -*- line.
What if you change the dialect from the bibtex Entry-types menu? also, what still doesn't work? Eric S Fraga writes: > On Saturday, 27 Jun 2015 at 09:11, Xebar Saram wrote: >> hmm strange still dosent work for me. here is the top section of my bib file >> >> -*- mode:bibtex; eval: (bibtex-set-dialect 'biblatex); -*- >> >> @article{ackerman-1998-discr-clear, >> author = {Ackerman, {S.A.} and Strabala, {K.I.} and Menzel, >> {W.P.} and Frey, {R.A.} and Moeller, {C.C.} and >> Gumley, {L.E.}}, >> title = {Discriminating Clear Sky From Clouds With Modis}, >> journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research}, >> volume = 103, >> number = {D24}, >> pages = {32,141--32,157}, >> year = 1998, >> shorttitle = {Discriminating clear sky from clouds with {MODIS}}, >> } > > [...] > > Try removing the comma in the last entry. I've found that having this > comma confuses bibtex and/or emacs at times... > > Just grasping at straws here for you :-) -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu