exporting references from Zotero into Overleaf - I am very confused!

rkryger

Hi,
I am using the Zotero windows software along with the web-library. I have also "linked" my Overleaf Project to Zotero to include my reference library in a document.

However, there are important differences between what shows up in my biblatex-linked .bib file in Overleaf and what I export manually from Zotero on my laptop.

In particular, here is an entry that shows-up automatically in my overleaf .bib file:

@article{Tampa-Trib-1950-01-14,
address = {Tampa, FL},
chapter = {1},
title = {A {Novel} {Experience}},
journal = {Tampa Morning Tribune},
author = {Anonymous},
month = jan,
year = {1950},
pages = {4}, }

Here is the same entry that I manually export from the Zotero windows program:

@article{Tampa-Trib-1950-01-14,
location = {Tampa, {FL}},
title = {A Novel Experience},
pages = {4},
journaltitle = {Tampa Morning Tribune},
author = {Anonymous},
date = {1950-01-14},
}

Notice the field names are different - e.g. "journal" vs. "journaltitle", and more importantly the full date "1950-01-14" has been changed to a month and year entry. The manual export is more closely related to what I actually entered for the reference.

I don't see any settings either on the Zotero web-library page or the Overleaf link setup that I can control this.

Why don't these match each other. What sort of translation is going on here? I am particularly concerned that I have lost the full date information.

Thanks

adamsmith

The Zotero export is Biblatex, the one you show from overleaf is BibTeX. I'm pretty sure you can set up Overleaf to use Biblatex from Zotero