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Better BibTex is an extension for Zotero and Juris-M. While Zotero manages bibliographic data, Better BibTex creates user-defined citation keys before exporting into .bib extracts.

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How to combine two .bib data files [duplicate]

I Have two bib data files - How can I make my bibtex or other use then both? In the old days, I could've used cut and past. would biber help?
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Export library as Biblatex and not Bibtex with Zotero

When I mark an entry as a "Web page" in Zotero, it is automatically exported as "@misc" in my .bib file, which is causing me problems to correctly show urls in my latex document. I ...
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< > characters in DOI causing formatting issues

When using a DOI which contains unusual characters (<, >, etc), which would need to be input into latex in math mode to be properly formatted. The issue is that doing that within the .bib file ...
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How to keep hyphen in BibTex key title?

I recently installed Better BibTeX for Zotero in my zotero (ver. 6.0.27) on Windows 10 PC. Before installing it, the citation key was like author_title_year where title included a hyphen. For ...
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Error because of name prefixes with bibentry and Zotero export (noopsort)

I've an issue for which I've identified where it comes from but can't find the code to solve it. I'm managing my bibliography using Zotero automatic export system. In order to have names with prefixes ...
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IEEETran "Accessed on" date with Zotero Better BibTeX

I'm using IEEETran for my article and need to specify an Accessed on date. My references are managed by Zotero using the Better BibTeX plugin. How do I add the date so it appears in the bibliography? ...
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Citekey has changed between two instalation of Zotero

I am using Zotero with Latex, refering the documents to the exported library .bib file. I have re-installed Zotero recently, and the citekey of the .bib file has changed. Before citekeys were in this ...
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Regarding BibTex

I am using this BibTex code in beamer for the list of references, in the last. But the references List is showing without serial numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6, etc. I need the serial number too. What should I ...
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How to change sepator in zotero BetterBibTex

Zotero extension BetterBibTex use the following citekey format on its configuration shorttitle(3,3) + auth + year the format of citekey is separated by lower camelCase titleAuthorYear How can I ...
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Zotero/Betterbibtex: Isnt there any easy way to copy the info you need for the .bib file?

So im using overleaf and im trying to get Zotero to work with that. I installed the betterbibtex add-on and im trying to get this kind of code @book{Strategie2030Vermogen2005, title = {{Strategie ...
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Undefined citations when use latex-workshop in VS-code, while it works well in texstudio

Thanks for your attention, English is not my native language; please excuse typing errors. I used to write my paper in latex with texstudio and I export my bibliographies by Zotero with add-in "...
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Where can the symbol \lessequivlnt be found?

I'm using Zotero with Better BibTeX to manage a bibliography. The latter, I believe, translates the symbol ≲ into \lessequivlnt, which throws an Undefined Symbol error upon compilation. I don't see ...
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Make Overleaf to use Better Bibtex citation keys instead of Zotero keys [closed]

I have a LaTeX Overleaf project article and I use the connection to my Zotero database to generate the .bib file used in my project. I recently installed the Better BibTex package with the aim to sync ...
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BetterBibtex/Biber/Zotero - No export of Book Pages

I'm using Zotero (V.5.0.81) and BetterBibtex (V.5.2.7) in order to export my bibliography to a .bib file. When I do that, my pagetotal field for @books doesn't appear in my .bib. It works well on ...
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Biblatex not finding citations [duplicate]

I have been going out of my mind trying to fix this problem. I recently moved from natbib to biblatex, as a lot of my references contain unicode characters. My citations used to work find using natbib,...
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How do I cite author in LaTeX with BibLaTeX?

It's not the same question as How do I cite author in LaTeX?. I create my bib file with Zotero (better BibLaTeX) and so I don't have year and publisher but date and journaltitle and so I can't use \...
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Suppress url from biblatex newspaper articles exported from Zotero

I am using Zotero + Better BibTex and using the biblatex package to generate a bibliography in APA citation style. I want to exclude url and urldate from academic journal @articles but retain them for ...
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Presentation of year and ISBN of BetterBibLaTeX from Zotero in LaTeX

First of all my question: How can I adjust biblatex to show only the year from the date and not to delete the dashes from the ISBN? Here is my MWE: BetterBibLaTeX 1.6.6 within Zotero Standalone 4.0 ...
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Avoiding \ensuremath when incorporating backslash \ in better-bibtex export from zotero

I am writing a paper that needs various elements of the references to be enclosed in \pkg{blahblah}. When I try to include this directly in zotero, the zotero regular bibtex export outputs exactly ...
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Showstopper with better-biblatex+zotero?

I am using better-biblatex to access my Zotero collections of journal articles. Mostly it works fine, though duplicate keys are a bummer (the documentation for the alternate JabRef syntax based fields ...
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