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* org-ref: customizing bibtex key names generated by doi-utils
@ 2016-06-23 19:49 David Dynerman
  2016-06-23 20:04 ` John Kitchin
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Dynerman @ 2016-06-23 19:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

Hi all,

I'm interested in exporting HTML from an org document that contains references managed by org-ref.

I'm running into the following problem. I have a reference that doi-utils added with a very long bibtex key:

@article{saldin09_struc_isolat_biomol_obtain_from ...

When exporting to html, org-ref uses this bibtex key as the link text in every citation. This quickly becomes unreadable, especially if you cite the above paper several times in a paragraph.

Does anyone know how easy it would be to customize the bibtex keys generated by doi-utils, for instance  by doi-add-bibtex-entry? For instance, if the above key were just the first author and year, it'd be

@article{Saladin2009

which would be much more readable after HTML export. I took a 30 mins look at the relevant doi-utils functions but couldn't piece out a reasonable way to make the change.

I guess another solution would be to modify HTML export to change citation link text, but that seems like the wrong place to make this change.

Any advice is appreciated!
David

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* Re: org-ref: customizing bibtex key names generated by doi-utils
  2016-06-23 19:49 org-ref: customizing bibtex key names generated by doi-utils David Dynerman
@ 2016-06-23 20:04 ` John Kitchin
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: John Kitchin @ 2016-06-23 20:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Dynerman; +Cc: emacs-orgmode

You can customize the bibtex keys like this:

;; variables that control bibtex key format for auto-generation
;; I want firstauthor-year-title-words
;; this usually makes a legitimate filename to store pdfs under.
(setq bibtex-autokey-year-length 4
      bibtex-autokey-name-year-separator "-"
      bibtex-autokey-year-title-separator "-"
      bibtex-autokey-titleword-separator "-"
      bibtex-autokey-titlewords 2
      bibtex-autokey-titlewords-stretch 1
      bibtex-autokey-titleword-length 5)



The closest you can get changing the way citations are exported is
outlined here:

http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2015/12/11/Introduction-to-a-citation-processor-in-org-ref/

It is not yet an easy thing to do.


David Dynerman writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm interested in exporting HTML from an org document that contains references managed by org-ref.
>
> I'm running into the following problem. I have a reference that doi-utils added with a very long bibtex key:
>
> @article{saldin09_struc_isolat_biomol_obtain_from ...
>
> When exporting to html, org-ref uses this bibtex key as the link text in every citation. This quickly becomes unreadable, especially if you cite the above paper several times in a paragraph.
>
> Does anyone know how easy it would be to customize the bibtex keys generated by doi-utils, for instance  by doi-add-bibtex-entry? For instance, if the above key were just the first author and year, it'd be
>
> @article{Saladin2009
>
> which would be much more readable after HTML export. I took a 30 mins look at the relevant doi-utils functions but couldn't piece out a reasonable way to make the change.
>
> I guess another solution would be to modify HTML export to change citation link text, but that seems like the wrong place to make this change.
>
> Any advice is appreciated!
> David


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