Import bibliography changes reference name

sravassi

In a ref.bib file I have a collection of articles. One example, is the one below

@Article{Romer2000,
title = {Federal Reserve Information and the Behavior of Interest Rates},
...
publisher = {American Economic Association},

I want to add it to Zotero account, so go to file->import and choose ref.bib.
Zotero add all the articles to my account.
However, when I export (to Bibtex) the bibliography from account , the names of the imported references change.

So now, the article looks like this
@article{romer_federal_2000,
title = {Federal Reserve Information and the Behavior of Interest Rates},
.....
}
which is a problem my .tex files reference the article with the previous name.

How can I import/export files without changing the name of the reference?

dstillman

If you're using BibTeX as anything other than a generic interchange format, you want to be using the Better BibTeX extension, which gives you vastly more powerful and flexible BibTeX support, including preserving citation keys.

sravassi

It worked, thanks!

I just had to tweak it, so I can have the reference as in Romer2000.
The documentation on

https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/citing/
under the title: Configurable citekey generator
explains how to do it.