problem with the biblatex/bibtex export

pprw
I just imported from a bibtex reference to zotero. Here is the reference style:

@Inproceedings{key,
Title = {title},
Author = {author name},
Booktitle = {booktitle},
Year = {2007},
Organization = {organization},
Pages = {233--262}
}

After the importation, I tried to export this reference to bibtex/biblatex.

With bibtex export:

@inproceedings{key,
title = {title},
booktitle = {booktitle},
author = {author name},
year = {2007},
pages = {233–262}
}

With biblatex export:

@inproceedings{clef,
title = {title},
pages = {233–262},
booktitle = {booktitle},
booktitle = {booktitle},
author = {author name},
year = {2007}
}

In both bibtex and biblatex export, we loose the field "organization". It sounds like a bugs.

Moreover, biblatex export duplicate the filed "booktitle". If you copy/paste the (first) bibtex reference, you should be able to reproduce the problem.
  • adamsmith
    but what is organization here? I don't see what Zotero field that could import into. The duplicate booktitle in biblatex we'll fix.
  • noksagt
    In BibLaTeX, organization is essentially the publisher. There is no formal definition of it in BibTeX.
  • adamsmith
    but no reason we couldn't support it as a fallback for publisher on bibtex import then?
  • noksagt
    It isn't a terrible choice. But there are @inproceedings and @proceedings that include BOTH an organization and a publisher. I haven't checked what the popular styles do with that info, though.
  • pprw
    Sorry to answer so late.

    @adamsmith "but what is organization here? I don't see what Zotero field that could import into."

    I don't know exactly but I found some reference on the Internet with both a publisher and *organization* field. An institution could want to have its name printed even if this book have already scientific editors and a publisher. All three should be printed (I had the feeling that zotero shouldn't delete this information when exporting...)

    But I have no clue about how to convert it.

    P-S : "The duplicate booktitle in biblatex we'll fix." > Thanks
  • adamsmith
    duplicate booktitle was fixed a while ago.
    I just pushed a change to the bibtex translator that uses organization or institution as a fallback for publisher.
  • zhenyu.yang
    I encountered a similar issue by exporting an "inproceedings" entry to bibtex format. The entry was once imported from internet directly using the navigator plug-in. It contains only a "publisher" field while the latex template of wiley online library strictly requires an "organization" field instead of "publisher". Maybe keep both outputs ?
    I'm using zotero 6.0.30.
  • adamsmith
    edited November 6, 2023
    Yeah, you can't expect roundtrip import/export to be loss-less: bibtex is too poorly standardized for that and I don't think we'll want to export duplicated fields (i.e. both publisher and organization). The erro
    If you do use the BBT add-on, you can specify specific export parameters using tex.organization (etc.) in the Extra field, so that might help?
Sign In or Register to comment.