Adam,

Thanks for the info.

Did the H stand for humble or honest? 😂 - either way, you’re completely 
correct, sometimes we are a bit anal about things in our workflow.

I also agree that the value of the cite key is in its uniqueness and should not 
be used for grouping.

Question born of ignorance: is there any sort of cost to using that much 
metadata in the cite key?

Cheers,
Jason

Sent from my phone; please pardon any communication catastrophes.

On Jul 23, 2018, at 1:30 PM, Adam R. Maxwell via Bibdesk-users 
<bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net>>
 wrote:



On Jul 23, 2018, at 11:10 AM, "Craggs, Jason G." 
<crag...@health.missouri.edu<mailto: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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