ambiguous bibtex labels

KtotheD
Hello,

My problem is the following:

I cite different publications of the same author and the same year.
Zotero created the same Bibtex label for both papers.

E.g.:
Paper titles are:
Panoptic Segmentation
Panoptic Feature Pyramid Networks

Author:
Kirillov et al.

Label:
kirillov_panoptic_2019
kirillov_panoptic_2019

it is impossible to know which Paper I am referencing to with the same label.....
I do not know why this happened... before it used the labels
kirillov_panoptic_2019
kirillov_panoptic_2019-1

but somehow it changed ?!

I use the Overleaf plugin for Zotero and can not change the imported Bibtex entries.
Is there a way to deal with this?
  • dstillman
    If you're using a BibTeX-based workflow, you want to be using the Better BibTeX extension. Zotero's native BibTeX export is just for generic data exchange and doesn't provide any control over citation keys.
  • adamsmith
    Right, but this is for Overleaf, so runs on the web API where we don't access BBT's citekeys (I'm pretty sure, though I feel like we've discussed using Extra: citekey?).
    Currently that only works by using BBT and Overleaf's git-based workflow, I think.
  • bwiernik
    The default Zotero BibTeX translator will use a citation key stored in Extra like:
    Citation key: Jones2012

    I think that should work with Overleaf too?
  • emilianoeheyns
    It does work with overleaf, and BBT is not needed for this, so it's lightweight.

    If you want to automate this rather than hand-typing, BBT can help; there are also other way to get BBT bibtex into overleaf: https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/exporting/auto/
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