Can't copy BibTeX to the clipboard

dstillman Zotero Team
edited August 20, 2025
This discussion was created from comments split from: How to copy citation in clipboard in bibtex format?.
  • rafisics
    edited August 20, 2025
    I attempted to copy the BibTeX of the selected item to my clipboard using Copy Citation (Ctrl+Shift+A) and Copy Bibliography (Ctrl+Shift+C) in Zotero 7 on Ubuntu.
    It didn't work. I am not getting anything on my clipboard.
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    edited August 20, 2025
    You need to select BibTeX from the Quick Copy settings in the Export tab of the Zotero settings.
  • rafisics
    Oh, okay. Thank you.

    I thought it was set to `BibTeX` by default, as mentioned here: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/443847/#Comment_443847
    > By default, Quick Copy (i.e. ctrl+shift+c) copies the full bibtex of the selected items.
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    edited August 20, 2025
    No, that thread was about how to use BibTeX with Quick Copy. It wasn't saying it's the default setting. Zotero isn't a BibTeX-based tool and wouldn't ever use BibTeX by default for anything.

    Note that if you're actually using a BibTeX-based workflow, you'd want to install the Better BibTeX plugin and use one of its formats for Quick Copy, not the built-in BibTeX translator.
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