I would like to use Mendeley to manage my references and have been writing my paper in Overleaf.
I am trying to import a .bib file into Mendeley and have found that when importing the .bib file, all the citation keys are stripped from the .bib.
This is not ideal since I am migrating across from another reference management software and have already cited several pages of writing using the citation keys from the .bib file.
How can I import my .bib file into Mendeley in a way that retains the citation keys?
I have tried importing into "Mendeley Desktop", "Mendeley Reference Manager" and Mendeley library online.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT - .BIB FILES BEFORE AND AFTER IMPORT TO MENDELEY
Before Import
@Article{YangNon-StationaryScenarios,
author = {Yang, Mi and Ai, Bo and He, Ruisi and Ma, Zhangfeng and Zhong, Zhangdui and Wang, Junhong and Pei, Li and Li, Yujian and Li, Jing and Wang, Ning},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology},
title = {{Non-Stationary Vehicular Channel Characterization in Complicated Scenarios}},
year = {2021},
number = {9},
pages = {8387--8400},
volume = {70},
publisher = {IEEE},
}
@article{Zhai2021MultifrequencyTunnels,
title = {{Multifrequency Channel Characterization for Curved Tunnels}},
year = {2021},
journal = {IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters},
author = {Zhai, Menglin and Zhai, Kai and Cui, Hengrong and Li, Demin},
number = {12},
month = {12},
pages = {2457--2460},
volume = {20},
publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.},
doi = {10.1109/LAWP.2021.3114553},
issn = {15485757},
keywords = {Channel analysis, curved tunnel, millimeter wave, ray tracing, vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V)}
}
@Comment{jabref-meta: databaseType:bibtex;}
After Import
@article{Zhai2021,
abstract = {In this letter, the channel characteristics of tunnels with different curvatures at different frequencies for vehicle-to-vehicle communications are investigated. The relationship between the mean value of path loss, delay spread (DS), frequency, and curvature is analyzed. A high-order polynomial is proposed to describe the path loss exponent (PLE) and a first-order polynomial is used to fit the root-mean-square (RMS) DS. Finally, the neural network is used to build a model to predict the PLE and RMS-DS and to verify the proposed model.},
author = {Zhai, Menglin and Zhai, Kai and Cui, Hengrong and Li, Demin},
doi = {10.1109/LAWP.2021.3114553},
issn = {15485757},
journal = {IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters},
keywords = {Channel analysis,curved tunnel,millimeter wave,ray tracing,vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V)},
month = {dec},
number = {12},
pages = {2457--2460},
publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.},
title = {{Multifrequency Channel Characterization for Curved Tunnels}},
volume = {20},
year = {2021}
}
@article{Yang,
author = {Yang, M and Ai, B and He, R and Ma, Z and {\ldots}, Z Zhong - IEEE Transactions and undefined 2021},
journal = {ieeexplore.ieee.org},
title = {{Non-Stationary Vehicular Channel Characterization in Complicated Scenarios}},
url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9485046/?casa_token=b3G0fMj0mBAAAAAA:ir0N2wkaAZMwoLFT05STYQbF4JPUCSVscdAwmdu3As2gyk2EisWJ4p8UEIkBaYukVo3QRJVLl34}
}
As you can see, the citation keys have been changed by Mendeley
.bibfile before importing into Mendelay and after exporting fromMendeley? At least then we have an idea what we are working with.authoronYangalso seems wrong, whereas the original is correctly formatted. I don't use Mendeley so cannot help further. But I agree that this looks very suspicious.