I'd suggest against using DOIs as keys. Some DOIs are not valid bibtex keys according to JabRef. For example, this is a valid DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199106)42:5<361::AID-ASI6>3.0.CO;2-#
Moreover, and unfortunately, DOIs sometimes do change. Cheers, Cody On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 8:39 AM, EBo <[email protected]> wrote: > I am currently running JabRef-2.10b2 with an Options->BibTeX Key > Generator->Default Pattern = > > [auth][year:(unk)][shorttitle:abbr:upper] > > This will set the last name of the author, followed by year, followed > by the first letter of the first three non-trivial words (in upper > case). That is if there is a year. If not, then it uses unk for the > year... > > If you read up on the documentation of the key generator you can > probably figure it out. I am thinking that there is likely a way to do > it though. > > EBo -- > > > On Nov 4 2014 6:22 AM, Jorge Fernandez de Cossio Diaz wrote: > > So, is there a way to generate a BibTexKey of a form (say > > [author][year][doi]) if the entry has a DOI, and use another form > > (say > > [author][year][journal][firstpage]) if the entry doesn't have a DOI? > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Aradenatorix Veckhom Vacelaevus [[email protected]] > > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2014 08:19 PM > > To: Jorge Fernandez de Cossio Diaz > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Jabref-users] Using DOI as BibTeX key, but if DOI > > empty, use other fields. > > > > Well, some publishers use (repeat) the DOI as the bibtexkey when you > > export the refrence data of the paper. In Preferences you shoud find > > the section bibtex generator (or a similar name) where the bibtexkey > > is defined as [author][year]. You can use then the DOI but as you > > say, > > maybe is not the best choice even if not all your references get a > > DOI > > field, if you want to change the [author][year] sistem, you can find > > another more general way to get the bibtexkeys automatically. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > > [http://5.cim.co.cu/cim.gif] > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Jabref-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jabref-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Jabref-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jabref-users >
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