Zotero format seems to be overridden in BibTex

huongisu

Some of my reference entries that involve a Latin name have their titles formatted in Zotero Title field in such a way that the Latin names are emphasized (which I assume is the correct code to have Latin names italicized in the output). One of the entries looks like this
Amaranthus rudis and A. tuberculatus , One Species or Two?
Even though the is shown in the .bib file, Latin names are not italicized in the .tex file output. I am using Overleaf and Rmarkdown to write. The current work-around that I was advised is to write and save file as .tex, have a separate .bib file that contains the entries that need Latin names italicized only and then wrap \emph{} around the Latin names; all done one by one.

Please advise me on how to get Latin names displayed properly on multiple entries at once.

bwiernik

If you are exporting to TeX, recommend installing the Better BibTeX plugin in Zotero, which among other things will convert the HTML-like italics tags to BibTeX markup on export .

huongisu

Thanks. My Better BibTex version 5.2.30. I have been using this plug-in ever since.

emilianoeheyns

If you open an issue on https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex/issues/new/choose, I can help you get this sorted. If you choose "Export bug", the template will guide you through sending a debug log (point 7) which will give me the exact item you are experiencing problems with.

emilianoeheyns

I think you included HTML markup in your initial question but they don't show.

emilianoeheyns

Wait, how are you getting the bib files to overleaf? And for RMarkdown the recommended format is CSL-JSON (for good reasons), which BBT can also export.

emilianoeheyns

Did you use <i>...</i>? Or something else?

emilianoeheyns

If you use the standard overleaf - zotero integration you're getting the standard zotero bibtex export (which should still support italics I think?). To get BBT bib(la)tex into overleaf you need to do extra setup: https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/exporting/auto/#getting-your-bbt-generated-biblatexcitekeys-to-other-places

huongisu

Thank you for your enthusiasm. The entries were imported with the "Save to Zotero" button. For export, I just right-click the folder and save the generated .bib file. Overleaf doesn't support folder sync between Overleaf and Zotero so I have to upload the .bib file to my Overleaf project. I have reported a bug error to your github.

emilianoeheyns

The importer that was used on the site you got this from imported the title as <span class="italic">Amaranthus rudis</span> and <span class="italic">A. tuberculatus</span> , One Species or Two? -- Zotero doesn't support this markup, it should be <i>Amaranthus rudis</i> and <i>A. tuberculatus</i> , One Species or Two?. With that, BBT will use \emph{...} for those parts.