

Find duplicate keys through integration with Report Customizer This feature requires a one-time setup: choose the Quick Copy format under the Citation keys preferences for BBT, and go to Zotero preferences, tab Export, under Default Output Format, select “Better BibTeX Quick Copy: ”. You can drag and drop citations into your LaTeX/Markdown/Orgmode editor, and it will add a proper \cite/ The cite command isĬonfigurable for LaTeX by setting the config option in the preferences. These keys are shown without the asterisk ( *) marker in the middle column, and non-italicized in the details view, to distinguish them from dynamic keys. You can generate a pinned citation key by selecting one or more items, right-clicking, and selecting Generate BibTeX key, which will add the current citation key to the extra field, thereby pinning it. You can fix the citation key (called pinning in BBT) for an item by adding the text Citation Key: anywhere in theĮxtra field of the reference on a line of its own. Such keys are called dynamic keys, which are marked with an asterisk ( *) in the reference list view, and are displayed in italics in the item details.

Stable citation keys, without key clashes.As the citation key is the piece of data that connects yourīibliography, this is a piece of data you want to have control over. People usually pick a naming scheme related to them. You can’t see the citation keys until you export themįor a LaTeX author, the citation keys have their own meaning, fully separate from the other reference data, even if.The keys are always auto-generated, so if you correct a typo in the author name or title, the key will change.

If a non-unique key is generated, which one gets postfixed with a distinguishing character is essentially.For serious LaTeX users, “usually” presents the following problems: The BibTeX citations keys generated by the standard Zotero exporters are always generated at time of export, using an algorithm that usually generates unique keys.
