Exporting a .bib file as plain text

jack.parkinson

Hello, new user here. I have written a paper in LaTeX with references as a bib file. The organisation I submitted to wishes to reprint the paper in a different medium, which wants a different submission format: in this particular case, everything as a .docx with the references included as the last section in the organisation's format.

So I can't just copy my .bib file and the format is all over the place when I try and copy from the compiled document. All the references I need are in Zotero, so I'd like to export them from there in the order required, in plain text in a format of my choosing or definition. I don't recognise all Zotero's export options, but none of them look like straight-up plain text.

Does this sound like something Zotero can do? Currently my best option is to export as a .csv and write a wee script to dump the references in the correct format into a .txt file, but if Zotero can get me part way there it would be very helpful.

dstillman

I'm not totally understanding what you're trying to do, but Zotero can obviously generate bibliographies, if that's what you mean.

https://www.zotero.org/support/creating_bibliographies

adamsmith

I don't quite understand what you mean by "plain text" -- all of Zotero's export formats are plain text in the sense that you can open them with a text editor, but given that that's also true for a .bib file, that doesn't seem like what you mean.

If you want a bibliography for a Word document, you could just use "Create Bibliography" copy that to the clipboard (or save as RTF) and then into Word -- that'd work nicely.

If, for whatever reason, you want a plain text bibliography (why?), you can just copy the bibliography to the clipboard, paste it into a text editor (which will remove all rich text formatting) and then save it.

If you want something else, you'd have to describe the desired output more.