{"id":103,"date":"2014-09-24T19:15:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T19:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2015-12-16T12:32:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T18:32:06","slug":"using-zotero-with-latex-and-naturally-bibtex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Using Zotero with LaTeX (and, naturally, BibTex)"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you don’t yet know, Zotero is a fantastic choice for\u00a0reference management. \u00a0If you manage references you should use it. \u00a0It does everything at least as well as the competition and does one thing the competition does not–it clips not only citations, but also full text PDFs from all major databases. \u00a0Very handy. \u00a0Plus, it’s open source and free (unless you want to upgrade your cloud storage).<\/p>\n

It has a great Word (and\u00a0OpenOffice) plug-in for citation and bibliography management, but what if you want to use it with LaTeX? \u00a0After trying and tweaking several different options being tossed around to integrate the two platforms, I recommend the following (it works with Zotero standalone or Firefox).<\/p>\n

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  1. Get the Better BibTe<\/a>X\u00a0plugin installed for Zotero<\/li>\n
  2. Get the autoexport<\/a> plugin installed for Zotero (Update: \u00a0Better BibTeX now has its own auto-export feature, thanks Emiliano!)<\/li>\n
  3. Set Better Biblatex to export bibtex citation keys in a format you like (I go for (first author lastname)(publication year) and have auto-export set on trigger mode to automatically export a new BibTex file to your LaTeX document folder (or separate folder if using a filepath) whenever a change is made to the Zotero database.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Simple! \u00a0Now you get all the functionality of Zotero, the flexibility of Better Biblatex, and a system that automatically coordinates the two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If you don’t yet know, Zotero is a fantastic choice for\u00a0reference management. \u00a0If you manage references you should use it. \u00a0It does everything at least as well as the competition and does one thing the competition does not–it clips not only citations, but also full text PDFs from all major...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[40,37,39,36,38],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guides","tag-guides2","tag-latex","tag-reference-management","tag-tex","tag-zotero"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p51adQ-1F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinwiegand.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}