Custom cite key format in bibexport

cosmicraga

Hello,

I want to export bibliography library using a particular cite key format, for example,

@article{bradaschia1990p518,
title={The VIRGO project: a wide band antenna for gravitational wave detection},
author={Bradaschia, C and Del Fabbro, R and Di Virgilio, A and Giazotto, A and Kautzky, H and Montelatici, V and Passuello, D and Brillet, A and Cregut, O and Hello, P and others},
journal={Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment},
volume={289},
number={3},
pages={518--525},
year={1990},
publisher={Elsevier}
}


The key should be :

bradaschia1990p518

i.e., firstauthorYEARpFIRSTPAGENUMBER

How can I do that ?

adamsmith

there are two options:
1. You can modify the auto-key generation function in Zotero's bibtex translators. While not terribly hard, this does require some javascript knowledge.
https://github.com/zotero/translators/blob/master/BibTeX.js#L66
https://github.com/zotero/translators/blob/master/BibTeX.js#L2287

2. You can use the unofficial custom BibLaTeX translator, which allows you to specify a citekey in the extra field:
https://github.com/andersjohansson/zotero-biblatex-translator

emilianoeheyns

A variation of this has been packaged as an extension at https://github.com/friflaj/zotero-better-bibtex

mmwood

Could someone explain what one needs to do to install the extension at
https://github.com/friflaj/zotero-better-bibtex ?

adamsmith

at the top of the readme page it says:
Install by downloading the latest version.
"latest version" is a hyperlink to the firefox extension.
In Firefox all you need to do is click it and OK to install.
For Zotero standalone, download it to your harddisk, then install via tools--> add-ons --> the little tool icon --> install add-on from file.