BibTeX export for biblatex-apa

singmann

For citations in LaTeX I use biblatex-apa with biber (i.e., backend=biber) which is not fully compatible with the standard bibtex output offered in zotero.
The problematic things are mainly that a month, if present, is epxorted for journal articles (which is not apa style) and that entries without recognized date receive a ???? in their bibtex key (so you cannot work with "in press").

Whenever an update to the bibtex exporter appears I have to hack it again to change those issues (and a few other minor change such as bot exporting a possible URL, abstract, or file reference). Perhaps anyone/zotero is interested to incorporate it as an new exporter biblatex-apa.

I uploaded my last version to pastebin: http://pastebin.com/s0j8uJ6w
(note, I haven't added me to the creator list, as my changes are rather small)

If interested I am happy to comment on the changes and or would be willing to maintain an exporter that is compatible with biblatex-apa and is based on the original bibtex exporter.

Cheers,
Henrik

adamsmith

there is a dedicated biblatex translator, which may perform better, but we're not going to include separate export translators for different bibtex or biblatex styles (and my understanding is that for biblatex that really shouldn't be necessary anyway). In particular the fact that months are included in the date should be handled by biblatex-apa.

You can save a translator with a different translator ID to have two separate translators and avoid having to re-do patches.

emilianoeheyns

https://github.com/ZotPlus/zotero-better-bibtex implements this export behavior.