The 'type' field and BibTeX

svann
I was importing some lecture notes, and thought that 'manuscript' was a fitting type as far as Zotero is concerned. I use Zotero to export a bibliography for BibTeX, and I want my final bibliography to include a note that these are lecture notes. I filled in 'Lecture notes' in the Type field in Zotero. However, now when I export this to a .bib file, I get *two* fields: type = {Lecture notes} and also howpublished = {Lecture notes}. In the end, this means that the item in my bibliography now reads "Lecture notes. Lecture notes," which is very ugly.

I don't want to manually every key after exporting my library again. Is there a way to fix this, or is this a bug?
  • bwiernik
    If you are using Zotero for writing in Bibtex, you should install the BetterBibTeX plugin. The BibTeX and BibLaTeX formats included with Zotero are intended as data exchange formats—BBT adds additional features to improve Zotero’s utility for actual TeX writing. I believe BBT should export to just one field out of the box, but you can also write custom post-processing steps in the BBT preferences.
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