Upgrade StorageIssue with BibTeX export
There seems to be a problem with the BibTeX format that is produced by Zotero. If I export entries as BibTeX, the resulting bib-file does not produce LaTeX output (at least via Lyx).
However, if I open the same bib-file with JabRef, save it, and use the resulting bib-file, It works flawlessly.
However, if I open the same bib-file with JabRef, save it, and use the resulting bib-file, It works flawlessly.
Are you using the latest version of the BibTeX translator? In Zotero 1.0.* it's only available via Reset Translators and Styles in the Advanced pane of the Zotero prefs. (This doesn't apply to any other translators.)
"Ein Fehler ist aufgetreten bei dem Versuch, die ausgewählte Datei zu exportieren"
Any ideas about what went wrong?
@incollection{baumgartner_die_2008,
address = {München},
title = {Die zukünftige Bedeutung von Online-Lernen für lebenslanges Lernen},
abstract = {
},
journal = {Online-Lernen - Handbuch für das Lernen mit dem Internet},
publisher = {Oldenbourg},
author = {Peter Baumgartner},
editor = {Ludwig Issing and Paul Klimsa},
year = {2008},
keywords = {pb-pub},
pages = {505--513},
comment = {Test Incollection
}
}
I'm not a expert with BibTeX format but I think there may be a confusion with the @inbook type (e.g. part of a book like chapter or section of book without a title). Then the export would be correct. (Frankly speaking I do not understand why @inbook exists at all, as it does not represent a citeable source. Why not use instead @book with either authors or editors or - if it is an independent contribution - to use the @incollection type?).
The format @incollection is used very often so please have a look into this issue. As it stands now, one can't produce valid BibTex output.
(I reset the translators)
I looked into the BibTex specification and it says:
@incollection:
required fields: author, title, booktitle, publisher, year
optional fields: editor, volume or number, series, type, chapter, pages, address, edition, month note.
@inbook:
required fields: author or editor, title, chapter and/or pages, publisher, year
optional fields: volume or number, series, type, address, edition, month, note
So the field "journal" is wrong in any case.
As a workaround for exporting into BibTex I used the @inproceedings type (conference paper instead of book section), exchanged in the output file @inproceedings with @incollection and added the series number manually where it was necessary (not very often).
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Some author names are composed (Prof. Le Tallec, Yves). The complete last name is Le Tallec.
The exported bibtex format for the author name field is as follows
author name= {Yves Le Tallec and ...}resulting in biblio reference like "Tallec, Y.L.;..." which is wrong.
It's worth changing the export in bibtex as:
author name= {Le Tallec, Yves and ...}Then bibtex deals correctly with composed names.
I haven't found any bug report on that. I hope it will be fixed in the 1.5 version cause to my mind it is a serious matter when you work with latex and Zotero
My BibTex export works, but my girlfriend's doesn't... and I can't figure out why. Here's the sequence...
Export the file from zotero - WON'T COMPILE
Export the file from zotero, open with JabRef, make no changes, save file - WILL COMPILE
I couldn't come up with two many things that could do that... maybe some weird line breaks or something...?
She originally imported her stuff through a bibtex file - it had previously been stored in refworks.
Anybody have any thoughts on where to look?
Thanks,
Mike
Does anyone know how to fix the "composed-last-name" matter I reported above?
Zotero exports inappropriately the author name (when this one is composed) in the bib file:
"Yves, Le Tallec" have to be exported as
author name= {Le Tallec, Yves...and not
author name= {Yves Le Tallec...I guess it's a little modification in the Zotero code, but it would be a significant correction to my mind.
Regards
any good reason for this?
thanks for an answer
This is easy to fix by editing the BibTeX.js file. Just change line number 2015 into:
creatorString = creator.lastName + ", " + creator.firstName;
I´m having sevaral probems to export Zotero>Latex (I´m using Zotero 2.1.8, LyX 2.0, WindEdit 6.0, and JabRef2.6):
1) as mentioned, trying to use the exported library directly in a latex compiler (LyX or WinEdit) won´t work. It is necessary to fist open it in JabRef and save. Has this been solved? is anyone working on this?
2) Many of my references are in portuguese, so I have characters such as: "à", "á", "ã", "ç". They all go wrong when Zotero Export´s them. I have to manually correct them in Jabref to the LaTeX equivlents ( " \´a ", " \'a ", " \~a ", "{\c c} ).
3) I tryed LyZ, wich actually includes the refs in Zotero (with the Zotero call name for the ref), but when you compile all references become "(?)". I think this problem is a consequence of problem 1.
I´ve seached several discussions on this and found no answer. I´m a big fan of Zotero and I´m helping to develop the Brazilian Citation style (ABNT) in Zotero. But now that I have to submit a papper in Latex, exporting my references from Zotero has become a big hassle, that I´m even considering moving to a JabRef or Mendlye. Please let me know if there are ways to solve this because I really love using Zotero.
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/10406/2/lyz-zotero-and-lyx-integration/#Item_4