Enhancement request: allow export to bibtex with output to a window, not just a file

Sergio Callegari · October 13, 2017

Currently, exporting entries to bibtex implies saving the bibtex records to a file. In many cases, this is inconvenient. If you already have your bibliography organized as a set of bibtex files (e.g., because you have stuff accumulated from years well before zotero), you may want to /add/ the items exported with zotero to those files. A similar situation occurs if you have a bib file you want to ship with an article and you use zotero to incrementally augment it. This implies: (i) opening your file; (ii) opening the file exported by zotero; (iii) copying over the data; (iv) deleting the file exported by zotero. Would be much easier if zotero in addition to having the possibility to export references to a file had also the ability to print them in a window (so that they can be just copied and pasted over, saving steps (ii) and (iv) ). Alternatively, zotero could "export to the clipboard".

A report has been submitted as 1776738243 (even if I believe it is not needed for an enhancement request)

Gracile · October 13, 2017

You can use Quick Copy to do this : Preferences, Export tab ->Default Format. In the drop-down menu, under "Export Formats", choose BibLaTeX or BibTeX.
See also : https://www.zotero.org/support/creating_bibliographies#quick_copy

Or Zotero Better BibLaTeX (which is not yet fully compatible with Zotero 5.0 though)

bwiernik · October 13, 2017

(Most of the features of Better BibTeX are working in Zotero 5)

emilianoeheyns · October 24, 2017

Both @Gracile and @bwiernik are correct in a sense -- not everything that used to be in BBT for Z4 is implemented yet, but the core parts are there, those are fully compatible with (only) Z5.