Citation keys change from Mendeley to Zotero
After importing my Mendeley database into Zotero, I added the Zotero bibliography to my Overleaf in the hopes that I could continue without interruption. However, it appears that Zotero puts the citation keys that Latex uses (e.g., \cite{wenger1998}) in a field called "extra" which now shows "Citation Key: wenger1998". Zotero creates their own citation key wenger_communities_1998. I am in the middle of writing my PhD thesis, and manually going through all the references in my written chapters in Overleaf is not ideal.
Is there a way to preserve the Mendeley citation keys?
Is there a way to preserve the Mendeley citation keys?
@emilianoeheyns Does BBT recognize Citation Key: or only citekey: ? Can it be made flexible enough to accommodate Mendeley imports?
The next step is to get Overleaf to see the BBT citation keys, I will fiddle around and update you on the progress.
Zotero puts Mendeley's citation key in the extra field, probably to preserve the info while not overriding their own preferred citation key system?
Overleaf + BBT can be done but it takes a little setup: https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/push-and-pull/#git-support
https://github.com/zotero/zotero/blob/2939b3ae95c520432b14f9674429d713db1aa70f/chrome/content/zotero/import/mendeley/mendeleyImport.js#L677
In general, @dstillman prefers Field Name: Value as the formatting for variables in Extra.