zotero-better-bibtex VS styles

There a zotero plugin that stores the entire contents of your zotero db as an auto-updated bibtex file too.

https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex

Thanks for sharing these. I already use a number of these on your list. Though I don't use copy-by-link for files. For me one of the key purposes of zotero is that its the place where I keep these files so I don't have to keep them elsewhere where they aren't as easily searchable.

I'm excited to try the duplicates merger tool, I've been forever putting off this because the normal way is such a slog. The Tag one also looks good.

To add to the list, my key add-ons are:

- better bibtex, this one is essential for me as a latex user

- zotfile. This one is cool because if you add annotations to a pdf, like highlighting or comments while you read it, then zotfile will pull those out into notes in the zotero entry. This makes it really easy to see both that I've read this document, and what parts I thought were important.

[1] https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/)

I was going to suggest that you ask the BBT dev about it as I had no idea why that didn't work, then I saw this bug from 3 days ago: Bug: citekey formula does not update. That might be the issue!

Another problem is that no matter how much I tried, the two available Zotero plugins for Obsidian do not work for me (this https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-zotero-integration and this https://github.com/hans/obsidian-citation-plugin). I am not sure if that is because I'm on Linux, but they just don't work. However, RStudio on Linux works great with Zotero, and I can easily add citations using the Better BibTeX for Zotero plugin (https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex) to create citation keys. That way, I can simply copy/paste the citation key (e.g. '@lastname2020') in the text and have it render into the citation when I render the file in Rstudio. I sometimes write documents with > 300 references, and Zotero running in a Windows VM, trying to refresh a huge word document would take a long time, and would lead to corrupt citations. That's no problem with a markdown/Rmarkdown document.

I have the Better BibTeX plugin in Zotero installed, which keeps ~/Research/refs.bib up-to-date with my entire Zotero library.

I use Zotero with the better bibtex addon. Works great. When I first started using zotero, I imported my existing bibtex library, so all my existing bibtex keys all worked. I use zotero as my library for everything and add bibtex keys to things I cite.

https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/

As a philosophy student: Zotero for reference management, the Better BibTeX plugin to auto-generate a .bib file, and two language servers for diagnostics: LTeX for grammar- and spellchecking, and alex for style and sensitivity checking.

Check out Better BibTeX [1], which works well with Pandoc for a Markdown-and-BibTeX-to-PDF workflow.

[1]: https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/

I had some trouble following this but I think what you're saying is the ` [@Bernhofer2021.02.23.432527]` tag isn't getting converted to the actual bib reference - is that right? I just copied this into my system and I could make that part work fine - using my own .bib file of course, and I used this csl which I copied locally. The one change I made to the setup was to put both the .bib and the .csl file in my working directory where the .qmd file is, and also as I commented on a different post of yours from the other day, I make sure there's no spaces in the path to my working directory (for either the folder names or the filenames). So for me, everything is in C:\Users\xxxx\workingdir - this is due to a known RStudio issue with spaces. Who knows if that's what you're running into or not.

Seems like in that case you need to use the csl export processor instead of the default basic -- see the instructions at https://ox-hugo.scripter.co/doc/org-cite-citations/. The default CSL style shipped with Org is Chicago author-date. For numbered citations you will need to use a different CSL style, for instance, ieee-with-url.

You can use the BetterBibtex plugin to export the references to a bib or json file which can be ingested by Pandoc. There's an option to have it re-export the file every time you make a change to the library.

Citations work pretty well. You can customize the output with different CSL files [1].

[1] https://citationstyles.org/

The bibliography.bib file is your exported bibtex file. The style.csl file is the citation style for the targeted journal (they can all be found here: https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles)

In addition, there are dozens of auxiliary features like searching & downloading citation styles from the Citation Style Repository or an "anticipatory" word count (i.e., calculating the word count a document would have when the bibliography has been added, a feature that virtually all markdown writing apps lack).