On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Vance Turnewitsch
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Would the '&' character happen to be illegal?
>
>From Bibdesk's page:
Citation Keys
A cite key is a unique identifier for a given reference. BibTeX scans
your document for occurrences of a cite command with a cite key
embedded in it, and translates it into a properly formatted reference.
Several patterns are common in choosing cite keys, from simple ones
such as "lastnameYEAR" to more complicated abbreviations of journal
names and author names. BibDesk will automatically generate cite keys
for you (See section Citation Keys), or you can enter your own in the
editor. BibDesk takes a fairly strict interpretation of the valid
characters for cite keys, and the characters " "@',\#}{~%" (including
the space character) are never allowed, while you will be warned if
you use one of "&$^" in a cite key. Cite keys are essentially TeX
commands, so you should avoid using underscores, for instance, if you
ever need to print the actual cite key itself.
So I would say yes.
S.
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