On Jul 23, 2018, at 11:10 AM, "Craggs, Jason G." <crag...@health.missouri.edu>
wrote:
@ Christian, thanks for the information about the cite key. Just so I know, If
it’s not a field, how then is it stored?
It's stored as a separate attribute of an item, unlike the normal "foo = bar"
fields, but that's only part of the story. Conceptually, the value of a citekey is in its
uniqueness, which means that it should _not_ be groupable. In general, any metadata
embedded in the citekey is a less-readable duplicate of the bibliography data itself, so
there's no general reason to treat it like a title/author/journal field.
The fact that people come up with easily-remembered schemes for creating a
citekey based on bibliography data is a holdover from the days before Services,
searching, and autocompletion, IMNSHO. Some of you people are way too anal
retentive about your citekey format and file attachment names.
-- adam
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