Possible to export bibliography for inline LaTeX use?

mxn · April 24, 2017

I have an environment (Scribus) where I need to use the bibliography in a LaTeX document inline, not in a BibTex bib file. Like this:

\begin{thebibliography}
\bibitem{key} John Doe {\em Title and stuff} 2013.
\end{thebibliography}

Is it possible to export this from Zotero?

adamsmith · April 24, 2017

no, sorry. Best bet would probably be to create the bibliography as html and then find a tool to convert it to LaTeX, though that leaves you without the citekey (but then -- what is that actually needed for in this setup?).
But overall, this just seems like a bad idea -- it takes away all flexibility of switching between citation styles, which is one of the attractions of using reference management (be it bibtex or Zotero's own).

mxn · April 24, 2017

Found the workaround to use bibtex in Scribus:
https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Working_with_latex_frames#Working_with_Bibtex

DarioCorona · November 17, 2020

Hello!
Is this feature still unavailable?

bwiernik · November 17, 2020

This might be possible using the BetterBibTeX plugin. @emilianoeheyns

emilianoeheyns · November 17, 2020

Not currently, but I have an idea how it could be made to work. @DarioCorona, please open an issue on github.

emilianoeheyns · November 17, 2020

@adamsmith no idea what the key could be used for here. This looks like a compiled bibliography, post-style application. I can't think of a way you could generate in-text citations from this