diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c68c9635ce7..8489723adc4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ We refer to [GitHub issues](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues) by using `#
 - We fixed an issue where the Medline fetcher was only working when JabRef was running from source [#5645](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/5645)
 - We fixed some visual issues in the dark theme [#5764](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/pull/5764) [#5753](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/5753)
 - We fixed an issue where non-default previews didn't handle unicode characters. [#5779](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/5779)
+- We fixed an issue where the ampersand character wasn't rendering correctly on previews.[#3840](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/3840)
 
 
 ### Removed
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/citationstyle/CSLAdapter.java b/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/citationstyle/CSLAdapter.java
index a30ca70845e..5728839efe9 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/citationstyle/CSLAdapter.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/citationstyle/CSLAdapter.java
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 import java.util.Objects;
 
 import org.jabref.logic.formatter.bibtexfields.RemoveNewlinesFormatter;
-import org.jabref.logic.layout.format.HTMLChars;
 import org.jabref.model.entry.BibEntry;
 import org.jabref.model.entry.Month;
 import org.jabref.model.entry.field.Field;
@@ -93,13 +92,11 @@ private static CSLItemData bibEntryToCSLItemData(BibEntry bibEntry) {
             BibTeXEntry bibTeXEntry = new BibTeXEntry(new Key(bibEntry.getType().getName()), new Key(citeKey));
 
             // Not every field is already generated into latex free fields
-            HTMLChars latexToHtmlConverter = new HTMLChars();
             RemoveNewlinesFormatter removeNewlinesFormatter = new RemoveNewlinesFormatter();
             for (Field key : bibEntry.getFieldMap().keySet()) {
                 bibEntry.getField(key)
                         .map(removeNewlinesFormatter::format)
                         .map(LatexToUnicodeAdapter::format)
-                        .map(latexToHtmlConverter::format)
                         .ifPresent(value -> {
                             if (StandardField.MONTH.equals(key)) {
                                 // Change month from #mon# to mon because CSL does not support the former format
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/jabref/logic/citationstyle/CitationStyleGeneratorTest.java b/src/test/java/org/jabref/logic/citationstyle/CitationStyleGeneratorTest.java
index ecb7a1d6b37..63627b59809 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/jabref/logic/citationstyle/CitationStyleGeneratorTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/jabref/logic/citationstyle/CitationStyleGeneratorTest.java
@@ -130,4 +130,16 @@ void testHandleDiacritics() {
         String citation = CitationStyleGenerator.generateCitation(entry, CitationStyle.getDefault());
         assertEquals(expected, citation);
     }
+
+    @Test
+    void testHandleAmpersand() {
+        String expectedCitation = "[1]B. Smith, B. Jones, and J. Williams, “&TitleTest&” BibTeX Journal, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 45–67, Jul. 2016.\n";
+        BibEntry entry = TestEntry.getTestEntry();
+        entry.setField(StandardField.TITLE, "“&TitleTest&”");
+        String style = CitationStyle.getDefault().getSource();
+        CitationStyleOutputFormat format = CitationStyleOutputFormat.TEXT;
+
+        String actualCitation = CitationStyleGenerator.generateCitation(entry, style, format);
+        assertEquals(expectedCitation, actualCitation);
+    }
 }