Sorry, I missed that question from Christiaan. In my case, I autogenerate the cite key, but then want to prefix it with the abbreviation of the name of the conference or journal where it appeared. The hacky way I do it is to open the .bib file after I autogenerate the cite key and just prepend the abbreviation. Then I import them into the master file. Old habit and it makes it easier to search for venues.
I suppose I could revise the “add keyword” script to do this all within BibDesk - but I don’t know how to refer to the cite key. Hence the hacky workflow. ==Tamer > On May 16, 2023, at 10:57 PM, Adam R. Maxwell via Bibdesk-users > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On May 16, 2023, at 15:12 , Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Just wondering, why would you not want to auto-generate the cite key when >> adding? > > If you have a master .bib file and create smaller ones as needed by > project/report/topic/etc, it makes sense that you'd want the same citekeys in > both files. At least, I think that was the rationale for not generating a new > citekey for an item when copying/dragging (unless it had empty or default > citekey)? > > -- adam > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
