Unfortunately, it means another step in a workflow, which only happens 'after the fact' of exporting, and a pain to have to use on every export. The fact that I can not easily control the citation keys in BibTeX files exported from Zotero makes me reluctant to make the switch.įortunately, BibTeX is a plain-text format, which makes it rather easy to write scripts to handle a lot of batch and automated processing. It's great that Zotero does support BibTeX export, but I dislike the idea of having to adapt the way I work to use its auto-generated keys, rather than ones which I have already taken the time to build, some manually. Is this field now accessible in the current versions (2.1.10)? I can't seem to find it. I noticed several references to exposing a citation key field being 'planned', but the ticket seems to be 4 years old. I know this is an old issue, and I think it's been very well discussed in the following, so I will just add my support for a better solution: Edit Zotero's import filter to extract and put data where I want it?.Edit the exported RIS file manually, or with a script?.Edit EndNote's export filter to assign values to fields that Zotero understands?.What is the easiest way to get all this into Zotero? and would like transfer all this information. I used a custom field for 'tags', dynamic collections, etc. Research Notes not 'Notes', the other one, with all my own notes and annotations of papers.I know others may use this for 'tags', but either way, I can not seem to find this in citations imported to Zotero. Label I use this field for BibTeX citation keys, as well as stable temporary references in Word.I used a few custom fields in EndNote that I need to keep in the transition.

If I know I can solve these, I'll be happy to make a full transition, but if not, it might be more practical to stick with EndNote :( Missing fields when importing EndNote data Sadly, I have this big fat EndNote database that I've been using relatively successfully in conjunction with BibTeX, and I've run into a few problems.

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