As with most things latex, it is a bit more complicated than with word/libre office, but not very difficult.
If you use the better biblatex plugin in zotero (https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/), you can auto export your library to a bib-file. Many latex-editors are able to auto-complete citation-keys from your bib-file and show you some information from the citation.
Texstudio is also customizable through macros, and I've made my own citation macro which I have bound to ctrl + <. When I press this key-combination I get the text \autocite{} or \textcite{} and it shows my citation keys like above.
To make the macro you have to choose "script" and the macro is:
There's no texstudio plugin, no. There are Lyx, Emacs, Atom, Rstudio, and then a generic solution taking advantage of BBT's cite while you write feature.
Overleaf has very elegant Zotero integration, too.
Drag&drop resulting in [?] shouldn't ever happen, though, so that's either a user error, a bug in BBT, or a significant problem with Texstudio's clipboard implementation.
If there's a literal "[?]" it would have to be BBT. I don't know if anything else that would produce brackets. No idea yet on how the question mark would get there.
Better bib(la)tex "works" as in I was able to install it, when I use \cite{citation} TexStudio auto-completes the citation (which I guess means texstudio can read the bib file).
I think this has been reported as https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex/issues/942, but the behavior there is different. Here on the zotero forum we're talking about drag-and-drop (something I could fix), but in the BBT issue the problem seems to be that "[?]" is being rendered (no MWE was provided, no idea what's going on there).
It can also be that the document wasn't compiled multiple times. Rendering bibliography in LaTeX takes multiple runs, in my experience at least 3. I use Overleaf a lot these days because they have everything set up and ready to go.
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If you use the better biblatex plugin in zotero (https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/), you can auto export your library to a bib-file. Many latex-editors are able to auto-complete citation-keys from your bib-file and show you some information from the citation.
I use texstudio and when I write a citation, \autocite{, it pops up a list of citation keys with the text from the bib-file like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5jqvapg9vul1jys/Screenshot 2018-04-03 10.07.20.png?dl=0
Texstudio is also customizable through macros, and I've made my own citation macro which I have bound to ctrl + <. When I press this key-combination I get the text \autocite{} or \textcite{} and it shows my citation keys like above.
To make the macro you have to choose "script" and the macro is:
%SCRIPT
editor.write("\\autocite{}");
cursor.shift(-1);
app.normalCompletion()
https://www.zotero.org/support/plugins#latex_tex_and_plain_text_editors
Overleaf has very elegant Zotero integration, too.
Drag&drop resulting in [?] shouldn't ever happen, though, so that's either a user error, a bug in BBT, or a significant problem with Texstudio's clipboard implementation.
\bibliography{honoursbib}
\begin{document}
Test\cite{Fukuyama1989}
\end{document}
@article{Fukuyama1989,
title = {The {{End}} of {{History}}?},
issn = {0884-9382},
url = {http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/stable/24027184},
number = {16},
journaltitle = {The National Interest},
shortjournal = {Natl. Interest},
urldate = {2018-04-05},
date = {1989},
pages = {3--18},
author = {Fukuyama, Francis},
file = {/home/paddy/Zotero/storage/XXWNZEEF/Fukuyama - 1989 - The End of History.pdf}
}
\usepackage{biblatex}or\printbibliography