Upgrade StorageAutomatic update of the citation keys (BibTex keys) with Zotero 5.0.33
Hello everyone,
I'm using Zotero and then export my references for LaTeX. Zotero used to automatically name the BibTex keys for my references this way: goffman_forms_1981, i.e. author_firstwordofthetitle_year. Zotero has been automatically updated to 5.0.33 and all the citation keys have changed. I'm currently writing my thesis and I have hundreds and hundreds of references that now need to be updated in my text. Thus I would like to know how to change the automatic bib keys in Zotero to reinstall the previous format.
I have changed the code to write this in Zotero: [auth]_[veryshorttitle]_[year].
It partly works, yet the first letter of the author's name and of the title are in capital letters (for instance, Goffman_Forms_1981) while it was in lower case before. I have also noticed some conflicts when the first word of the title is not the 'key word', as in: ducrot_les_1980 that has become Ducrot_mots_1980 (the title is: Les mots du discours).
I also have problems with names with particles (such as "de" or "von"). They used to be indicated as follows: de_cock_profiling_2014. Now they are: DeCock_Profiling_2014.
This results in conflicts with my LaTeX files and the references are not recognised anymore.
My questions are the following:
- how can I have the exact same citation keys I had before the update, i.e. only lower case and first word of the title?
- how can I change ALL the citation keys in my Zotero library at once? I have 4000 references, and even though I don't use them all for my dissertation, it would cost me an extensive amount of time to refresh each single citation key by hand. I have already tried selecting all the references, right-click on "Refresh BibTex key", but it did not work.
Thank you very much in advance!
- a PhD student quite stressed despite the New Year :)
I'm using Zotero and then export my references for LaTeX. Zotero used to automatically name the BibTex keys for my references this way: goffman_forms_1981, i.e. author_firstwordofthetitle_year. Zotero has been automatically updated to 5.0.33 and all the citation keys have changed. I'm currently writing my thesis and I have hundreds and hundreds of references that now need to be updated in my text. Thus I would like to know how to change the automatic bib keys in Zotero to reinstall the previous format.
I have changed the code to write this in Zotero: [auth]_[veryshorttitle]_[year].
It partly works, yet the first letter of the author's name and of the title are in capital letters (for instance, Goffman_Forms_1981) while it was in lower case before. I have also noticed some conflicts when the first word of the title is not the 'key word', as in: ducrot_les_1980 that has become Ducrot_mots_1980 (the title is: Les mots du discours).
I also have problems with names with particles (such as "de" or "von"). They used to be indicated as follows: de_cock_profiling_2014. Now they are: DeCock_Profiling_2014.
This results in conflicts with my LaTeX files and the references are not recognised anymore.
My questions are the following:
- how can I have the exact same citation keys I had before the update, i.e. only lower case and first word of the title?
- how can I change ALL the citation keys in my Zotero library at once? I have 4000 references, and even though I don't use them all for my dissertation, it would cost me an extensive amount of time to refresh each single citation key by hand. I have already tried selecting all the references, right-click on "Refresh BibTex key", but it did not work.
Thank you very much in advance!
- a PhD student quite stressed despite the New Year :)
[zotero:clean]BTW.