bibtex citation
I hope in the future zotero can be used to make bibtex citation as I can do this in mendeley
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(This may not be exactly what you were after; I'm not that familiar with LaTeX anymore, and could be jumping to conclusions. But you get the idea.)
Once you had the processor output format set up, it would be a short step to the implementation of a complete BibTeX substitute that uses Zotero to store citations, runs CSL styles natively, and fits into the LaTeX processing chain in the same way as current BibTeX.
Click on the "raw" link and place the file in the translators directory of your Zotero Data Directory (http://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data).
You can now select the BibTex Citation Key export method in the Export tab of the Zotero preferences, to use it with Quick Copy.
If you do make changes to allow for export translators to have a citation mode, can you also allow export translators access to the CSL processor? In the zotselect-link.js translator I linked to above, I wanted to format the output using existing styles, but that seemed to be impossible.
@limpato: Can you try the translator I posted and see if it suits your purposes?
I hope someone can solve it, I like zotero very much, why this option not available yet? Do you have solution for this?
The solution linked by clio_13 and the one just built by ajlyon in response to your post work in the same way, and both of them do exactly what you want, but you have to follow the cookbook. Open the Zotero gear menu, then go Preferences -> Export, and find the Quick Copy item (in boldface, at the top, the first section of the Export preferences). Find the selection list under "Default Output Format". Click on the list to open it. Scroll down to find the "BibTex Citation Key" translator (the code linked by clio_13 uses a different name for the translator -- if you're using that, then follow the link and read the post, which mentions the name).
Once you have performed the steps above, open a text editor of some sort, and position it on the same screen as your open Firefox browser. Open Zotero. Left-click on an item in Zotero, and hold down the left mouse button while moving the mouse pointer into the text editor. Release the mouse button ...
... I think that's what you're after. :)
You are all discussing something I'm trying to figure out. However, I'm relatively new to Zotero and LaTeX.
Could someone please explain in novice-friendly terms how to make Zotero show bibtex citation keys? I'd like to have these keys without having to export all my refs (e.g., to Jabref) because I'm constantly adding sources to Zotero as I'm researching and writing. I'd like to have the bibtex citation keys ready in Zotero before exporting so I can include the citation keys in the text I'm writing.
Can this be done? Any tips?