Title: Help making a custom IEEE style that inserts citekeys in the references

edited May 20, 2021
I want to generate bibliographies like the following:

```
[20210520105321]: Center for History and New Media, “Editing CSL Styles - Step-by-Step Guide,” _Zotero Documentation_. Accessed: May 20, 2021. \[Online\]. Available: [https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation\_styles/style\_editing\_step-by-step](https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step)
```

`20210520105321` is my citekey for the item in Zotero using the Better BibTeX for Zotero add-on. The field used for the citekeys is `Citation Key`. The `:` that follows the `]` is a personal convention I use. Everything else uses the IEEE style.

My purpose in using this instead of the normal style is that I'm a user of a Zettelkasten, and basically, I write notes about what I read, then insert my citekeys for the sources as in-text citations. Then, when I need to compose a large piece of text, I bring all the notes relevant to it together in one document, and use the find and replace feature of my text editor to number the references list according to the IEEE style.

My problem in making this custom style is that I don't have any knowledge of CSL. I could learn about it, but I only want to do this one thing and nothing else. What do I need to do to make this happen?
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