Use biber and biblatex

.gitignore

@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 *.aux
 *.bbl
+*.bcf
 *.blg
 *.log
 *.out
 *.pdf
 *.pyc
+*.run.xml
 metadata.txt
 doc_data.txt

Makefile

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ default: paper
 
 paper: Makefile
 	echo all | pdflatex $(LATEX_OPTS) $(PAPER_NAME)
-	bibtex -min-crossrefs=30000 $(PAPER_NAME)
+	biber $(PAPER_NAME)
 	echo all | pdflatex $(LATEX_OPTS) $(PAPER_NAME)
 	echo all | pdflatex $(LATEX_OPTS) $(PAPER_NAME)
 	echo all | pdflatex $(LATEX_OPTS) $(PAPER_NAME)

proposal_template.tex

@@ -5,16 +5,17 @@
 \usepackage{fancyhdr}
 \usepackage{lastpage}
 \usepackage{color}
-\usepackage{comment}
 \usepackage{xspace}
 \usepackage{hyphenat} %Use this instead of a hyphen to allow the word itself to be hyphenated
 \usepackage{paralist}
 \usepackage[shortlabels,inline]{enumitem}
 \usepackage{mathptmx}
 %\usepackage{titlesec}
-\usepackage[sort,nocompress]{cite} % autosort groups of citations
 \usepackage{lipsum} % TODO Remove this. It's just for the template
 
+\definecolor{lcolor}{RGB}{0, 56, 186} % {0, 35, 102}
+\usepackage[pdfa,breaklinks=true,colorlinks,linkcolor=lcolor,citecolor=lcolor,urlcolor=lcolor]{hyperref}
+
 \newcommand{\titleText}{
     A Repo Template for Single-Column Proposals
 }
@@ -28,6 +29,22 @@
 
 \setlist*[enumerate,1]{label=\begingroup\itshape(\roman*)\endgroup}
 
+\newcommand{\bibliofont}{\footnotesize}
+\usepackage[
+  style=ieee,
+  sorting=nty,
+  sortcites=true,
+  hyperref=true,
+  backend=biber,
+  mincrossrefs=10000000,
+  maxbibnames=50
+  ]{biblatex}
+\renewcommand*{\bibfont}{\footnotesize}
+
+\addbibresource{refs.bib}
+\addbibresource{confs.bib}
+
+
 \begin{document}
 
 % Just to be super paranoid about formatting...
@@ -48,8 +65,5 @@
 \rhead{\authorName}
 
 \input{content}
-
-\bibliographystyle{IEEEtranS}
-\bibliography{refs,confs}
-
+\printbibliography
 \end{document}