BibLatex export isn't including library catalog

christopher.chandler

Hi,

I I currently have an issue where the BibLatex export is not exporting the library catalog value to the exported .bib file. This is a problem because I need to reference the online database I used to get this resource (in my case, it's EBSCOhost).

For example, for an entry with a title, author, abstract, series, edition, place, publisher, date, language, ISBN, short title, url, **library catalog**, date added, and modified values, I get the following:

@book{churchland_braintrust_2018,
location = {Princeton},
edition = {Paperback},
title = {Braintrust : What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality},
isbn = {978-0-691-18097-7},
url = {search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1636276&site=ehost-live},
series = {Princeton Science Library},
shorttitle = {Braintrust},
abstract = {A provocative new account of how morality...},
publisher = {Princeton University Press},
author = {Churchland, Patricia S.},
date = {2018},
keywords = {Ethics, {MEDICAL} / Neuroscience, Neurobiology, {PHILOSOPHY} / Ethics \& Moral Philosophy, {PSYCHOLOGY} / Applied Psychology, {PSYCHOLOGY} / Neuropsychology},
}

Is there anything I can do to resolve this issue?

adamsmith

Check if the BBT add-on does this out of the box. If it doesn't, you can add fields in a post process hook

christopher.chandler

Unfortunately, I already tried the Better BibLatex plugin to no avail. How exactly would I add fields in a post process hook?

adamsmith

https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/exporting/scripting/

christopher.chandler

Excellent. I looked through that page and added this postscript:

if (Translator.BetterBibLaTeX) {
// biblatex-mla
if (zotero.archive) {
tex.entrytype = 'unpublished'
tex.add({ name: 'library', value: zotero.archive})
tex.add({ name: 'number', value: zotero.archiveLocation })
}
}

This appears to mostly be working, but now I have an issue where biblatex-mla isn't correctly italicizing the database name. Then again, that probably isn't a zotero issue, so maybe I will have to contact the developers of that package instead. Thanks for your help!

adamsmith

yup, that'd be on the biblatex style, nothing we can do about that, glad the export worked for you.

christopher.chandler

For anyone who comes across this thread at a later date, I fixed the problem by installing Better BibLatex, then adding the following code to Tools -> Better BibTex -> Open Better BibTex preferences -> Export -> postscript:

if (Translator.BetterBibLaTeX) {
// biblatex-mla
if (zotero.archive) {
//tex.entrytype = 'unpublished'
tex.add({ name: 'eprint', value: zotero.archive})
tex.add({ name: 'number', value: zotero.archiveLocation })
}
}

I had to use the "eprint" entry instead of the "library" one in the .bib file because "library" wasn't getting picked up by biblatex-mla. Then, I put the database name (e.g. EBSCOhost) in Zotero's "Archive" field instead of the "Library Catalog" one, and everything seemed to be working correctly.