I'm looking for help with my citation key format for BBT for Zotero

Annie_of_the_Stars

I want my citekey to produce something like this `kmiec+2017igwetf`.

My citation key format so far is `[auth:lower:alphanum][authors1+.:replace=.etal,+][year][title:skipwords:lower:abbr]`, but it results in `kmiecKmiec+2017igwetf`. I can't figure out how to produce something like the example above.

Any ideas?

emilianoeheyns

You're explicitly requesting the author name twice (once with auth, once with authors1).

title (lowercase) isn't affected by skipwords btw since it always generates text without spaces.

Annie_of_the_Stars

Hey @emilianoeheyns. Thanks for the feedback. Based on what you stated, the citekey format becomes [authors1+.:replace=.etal,+][year][title:lower:abbr].

Now, I want to apply the filters alphanum and lower to the author name. [authors1+.:replace=.etal,+:alphanum:lower][year][title:lower:abbr] works, but removes the +. What have I done wrong?

emilianoeheyns

alphanum removes everything that isn't a letter or a number. Try switching the replace and the alphanum.

Annie_of_the_Stars

@emilianoeheyns [authors1+.:lower:alphanum:replace=etal,+][year][title:lower:abbr] did it. Thank you so much!