Karla,
if you are using abntex2cite use the bibtex compiler to process your references, define a bibliography style.
I think you are using biblatex to compile your references.
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\documentclass[11pt, oneside]{book} % use "amsart" instead of "article" for AMSLaTeX format
\usepackage{geometry} % See geometry.pdf to learn the layout options. There are lots.
\geometry{letterpaper} % ... or a4paper or a5paper or ...
%\geometry{landscape} % Activate for rotated page geometry
%\usepackage[parfill]{parskip} % Activate to begin paragraphs with an empty line rather than an indent
\usepackage{graphicx} % Use pdf, png, jpg, or eps§ with pdflatex; use eps in DVI mode
% TeX will automatically convert eps --> pdf in pdflatex
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage[hyperpageref]{backref}
\usepackage[alf]{abntex2cite}
\bibliographystyle{abntex2-alf}
%\pdfstringdefDisableCommands{\let\uppercase\relax}
%SetFonts
%SetFonts
%\include{cite}
%\printrefereces{cite}
\title{Brief Article}
\author{The Author}
%\date{} % Activate to display a given date or no date
\begin{document}
\maketitle
%\section{}
%\subsection{}
some of which expand into interplanetary space as supersonic outflow known as solar wind \cite{Cranmer}—corona is extended from the transition region to the
\bibliography{sampleRefs.bib}
\end{document}