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Inconsistent citation keys patterns #68

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egoipse opened this issue Dec 16, 2019 · 2 comments
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Inconsistent citation keys patterns #68

egoipse opened this issue Dec 16, 2019 · 2 comments

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@egoipse
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egoipse commented Dec 16, 2019

Hi,

The citation keys patterns taken by RefManageR from Zotero are inconsistent and do not allow to incorporate bib references in RMarkdown correctly.

Creating a biblio file with ReadZotero function generates the following citation keys:

@Book{wickham_ggplot2:_2018,
  title = {ggplot2: {Elegant} {Graphics} for {Data} {Analysis}},
  shorttitle = {ggplot2},
  url = {https://ggplot2-book.org/},
  abstract = {Master ggplot2 and the rich grammar that underlies it.},
  urldate = {2019-07-27},
  author = {Hadley Wickham},
  year = {2018},
  keywords = {gráficos, r, tema 2, tutoriales},
}

@Misc{rcoreteamLanguageEnvironmentStatistical2019,
  address = {Viena},
  title = {R: {A} language and environment for statistical computing},
  url = {https://www.R-project.org/},
  publisher = {R Foundation for Statistical Computing},
  author = {{R Core Team}},
  year = {2019},
  keywords = {base, core, r, rprogramabase, software, tema 2},
}

@Book{chang_r_2019,
  title = {R {Graphics} {Cookbook}, 2nd edition},
  url = {https://r-graphics.org},
  abstract = {This cookbook contains more than 150 recipes to help scientists, engineers, programmers, and data analysts generate high-quality graphs quickly—without having to comb through all the details of R’s graphing systems. Each recipe tackles a specific problem with a solution you can apply to your own project and includes a discussion of how and why the recipe works.},
  urldate = {2019-07-27},
  author = {Winston Chang},
  year = {2019},
  keywords = {ggplot, gráficos, r, tema 2, tutoriales},
}

As you can see, the citation keys for books are totally diferent than from misc publication. The format I defined in Zotero Better BibTex plugin is exactly the misc's one. The output when exporting the same bilbliographic references directly from Zotero are exactly as I defined:

@book{wickhamggplot2ElegantGraphics2018,
  title = {Ggplot2: {{Elegant Graphics}} for {{Data Analysis}}},
  shorttitle = {Ggplot2},
  abstract = {Master ggplot2 and the rich grammar that underlies it.},
  author = {Wickham, Hadley},
  year = {2018},
  keywords = {r,tutoriales,gráficos,tema 2}
}

@misc{rcoreteamRlanguageenvironment2019,
  address = {{Viena}},
  title = {R: {{A}} Language and Environment for Statistical Computing},
  howpublished = {R Foundation for Statistical Computing},
  author = {{R Core Team}},
  year = {2019},
  keywords = {base,core,r,rprogramabase,software,tema 2}
}

@book{changRGraphicsCookbook2019,
  title = {R {{Graphics Cookbook}}, 2nd Edition},
  abstract = {This cookbook contains more than 150 recipes to help scientists, engineers, programmers, and data analysts generate high-quality graphs quickly\textemdash{}without having to comb through all the details of R's graphing systems. Each recipe tackles a specific problem with a solution you can apply to your own project and includes a discussion of how and why the recipe works.},
  author = {Chang, Winston},
  year = {2019},
  keywords = {r,ggplot,tutoriales,gráficos,tema 2}
}

I know that misc item is pined as fixed key citation and the other ones do not, so that would explain the issue. Am I right? And if the case, is there other solution to the issue?

@mwmclean
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Please provide a minimal working example using ReadZotero and RMarkdown that demonstrates the issue you refer to with RMarkdown. The keys are different, but they're still unique and valid, so what's the problem?

@egoipse
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egoipse commented Dec 16, 2019

Please provide a minimal working example using ReadZotero and RMarkdown that demonstrates the issue you refer to with RMarkdown.

Sure. Here it is:

require(RefManageR)
biblio<-ReadZotero(user=xxxxxxx, .params = list(tag="Tema 2", key="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" ), delete.file = FALSE)
WriteBib(biblio, file = "bibliografia.bib", biblatex = TRUE)

The keys are different, but they're still unique and valid, so what's the problem?

The problem is that it is not possible the automatization of working flow. Since I cannot predict the citation key pattern, I have to create first the Bib file and then copy manually the key generated by RefManageR. It is not precisely an efficient workflow. I use reprex addin to copy the exact citation key from Zotero. So, if RefManageR creates a file with a citation key pattern diferent than the one I defined, it is not possible an automatic workflow.

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