Btterbibtex citationkeys changed.

andersculturalstudies · 2024-11-01T18:48:00+00:00

Recently, it seems like all my Betterbibtex keys changed. I have a deadline for my dissertation on Wednesday and would not like to change about 200 entries manually. Does this have to do with the recent update Zotero or Betterbibtex? Does anyone know how to fix it?

adamsmith · 2024-11-01T19:06:50+00:00

Hard to say, but the only way for you to guarantee stable BBT citekeys is to pin them
https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/citing/#set-your-own-fixed-citation-keys

Generally you should be able to reproduce any algorithm that produced your old citekeys, though, so check in the settings?

andersculturalstudies · 2024-11-01T21:05:27+00:00

Thank you. I don't know what happened, but I got them back again. Maybe I accidentally exported the wrong format. I use classic bibtex and not better bibtex, never saw the point of better bib tex. Pinning sounds interesting though. Now the keys change when I change the item. I have the database on a webdav service but it never caused any trouble before.