ambiguous bibtex labels

KtotheD

Hello,

My problem is the following:

I cite different publications of the same author and the same year.
Zotero created the same Bibtex label for both papers.

E.g.:
Paper titles are:
Panoptic Segmentation
Panoptic Feature Pyramid Networks

Author:
Kirillov et al.

Label:
kirillov_panoptic_2019
kirillov_panoptic_2019

it is impossible to know which Paper I am referencing to with the same label.....
I do not know why this happened... before it used the labels
kirillov_panoptic_2019
kirillov_panoptic_2019-1

but somehow it changed ?!

I use the Overleaf plugin for Zotero and can not change the imported Bibtex entries.
Is there a way to deal with this?

dstillman

If you're using a BibTeX-based workflow, you want to be using the Better BibTeX extension. Zotero's native BibTeX export is just for generic data exchange and doesn't provide any control over citation keys.

adamsmith

Right, but this is for Overleaf, so runs on the web API where we don't access BBT's citekeys (I'm pretty sure, though I feel like we've discussed using Extra: citekey?).
Currently that only works by using BBT and Overleaf's git-based workflow, I think.

bwiernik

The default Zotero BibTeX translator will use a citation key stored in Extra like:
Citation key: Jones2012

I think that should work with Overleaf too?

emilianoeheyns

It does work with overleaf, and BBT is not needed for this, so it's lightweight.

If you want to automate this rather than hand-typing, BBT can help; there are also other way to get BBT bibtex into overleaf: https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/exporting/auto/