If you have a pretty recent org-ref, You can set a list of functions for org-ref-clean-bibtex-entry:
https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref/blob/master/org-ref.el#L302 Use this in an init file, and remove the functions you don't want to run. (setq org-ref-clean-bibtex-entry-hook '(orcb-key-comma orcb-key orcb-& orcb-clean-doi orcb-clean-year orcb-clean-pages org-ref-sort-bibtex-entry org-ref-title-case-article org-ref-replace-nonascii)) Julian Burgos writes: > Dear list, > > I am using org-ref-clean-bibtex-entry to clean up my biblatex file. Among > other things, this function detects if there are non-ASCII characters in > each bibtex/biblatex entry. My file has many non-ASCII characters that > are exported via Latex to pdf with no problems because my setup is in > UTF-8. Do you know if it is possible to "turn-off" this option in > org-ref-clean-bibtex-entry, so I do not get warnings about non-ascii > characters? > > Many thanks, > > Julian -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu