Fixing Citations After Zotero/Better BibTex upgrade

professed

I had to fix a citation issue today, so this is just a quick PSA for anyone else who may be having trouble. After updating Zotero and Better BibTex today, newly added citations were unavailable in Zettlr. I could still add citations to my Zettlr documents that were created in Zotero before the update, but newly created citations were not auto-suggested in Zettlr, nor did they render when I entered the citekeys manually, nor did they export.

Upon closer inspection, Better Bibtex had stopped updating the Better CSL JSON file on which Zettlr was dependent. I did the following and everything is now working again—not sure which of these steps is strictly necessary, but in combination they worked:

Disabled and then re-enabled the Better BibTex plugin in Zotero.
Created a new Better CSL JSON export file and pointed Zettlr to it, per the process shown in the Zettlr docs.
Restarted both Zettlr and Zotero

hendrik

Thanks! I had the same issue today as well, so I assume this was just some config change with BBT or Zotero that meant it had to remove the auto-exports and one had to re-do them.

I found that, at least for me, simply repeating the Library -> Export -> Better CSL JSON -> Keep Updated -> Overwrite the existing library file sufficed. Zettlr automatically reloaded the now-updated file. But restarting apps never hurts either 🙂