BetterBibTeX: "Booktitle" fill with "Conference Name"

a.moisan · May 27, 2019

Hello,

I am presently working on export from Zotero to BibTeX (with Better BibTeX). I use the .bib to import bibliographic data in open-access repository.

My problem : In Zotero when the field "Proceedings Title" is empty, BetterBibTeX fill it with the item of the field "Conference Name". I would like the field booktitle (Proceedings Title) not to appear in the BibTeX file if it is empty.

I tried to edit the translator BetterBibTeX.js without succes. Could someone explain to me wich line I should edit/erase ?

Sorry for my broken english,

Thank a lot,

Aurélien.

emilianoeheyns · May 27, 2019

Better BibTeX support happens at https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex/issues, but you don't need to edit the translator (and BBT will overwrite it when a new version comes out). You can achieve the same though with a postscript which will survive BBT upgrades.

If you open an issue on github at the link above (for this specific case, use the 'Export bug/enhancement' template, not the 'Question' template), I can get you a postscript that will do what you want.

emilianoeheyns · May 27, 2019

It will probably look like

if (Translator.BetterBibTeX && reference.has.booktitle && !item.publicationTitle) {
  delete reference.has.booktitle
}