How to make a shortcut to copy the citekey?

mhucka
In the Zotero desktop app for the Mac, I'm trying to make a shortcut that would copy the citekey of a selected item, but failing. I found past forum answers to questions along these lines that point people to the docs at https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/citing/ and the use of Zotero's export functionality, basically to use a BBT export function. However, what I see in my copy of BBT (5.4.15) in Zotero 5.0.96.2 does not match the description in the section "Drag and drop/hotkey citations". In particular, while the web page says we should pick the format "Better BibTeX Quick Copy", I don't have that in my export format menu. You can see what I have in my menu in the screenshot at https://share.getcloudapp.com/9ZudvgNk – the closest item is "Better BibTeX Zotero select link Quick Copy", which doesn't copy the citekey. Maybe I did something to change the options in that menu but I don't remember what :-(. In any case, what can I do to make _something_ work, so I can have a shortcut that will copy an item's citekey to the clipboard?
  • emilianoeheyns
    That's a problem in the docs, I'll fix that; "Better BibTeX Zotero select link Quick Copy" is the one you want, but you still need to go into the BBT settings to change which quick-export format you want through Preferences -> Better BibTeX -> Citation Keys, Quick-copy format.
  • jaanli
    Need this as well -- @mhucka @emilianoheyns did you figure this out?
  • bwiernik
    Yes, follow the instructions Emiliano gives in the post above yours
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