You can customize the bibtex keys like this: ;; variables that control bibtex key format for auto-generation ;; I want firstauthor-year-title-words ;; this usually makes a legitimate filename to store pdfs under. (setq bibtex-autokey-year-length 4 bibtex-autokey-name-year-separator "-" bibtex-autokey-year-title-separator "-" bibtex-autokey-titleword-separator "-" bibtex-autokey-titlewords 2 bibtex-autokey-titlewords-stretch 1 bibtex-autokey-titleword-length 5)
The closest you can get changing the way citations are exported is outlined here: http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2015/12/11/Introduction-to-a-citation-processor-in-org-ref/ It is not yet an easy thing to do. David Dynerman writes: > Hi all, > > I'm interested in exporting HTML from an org document that contains > references managed by org-ref. > > I'm running into the following problem. I have a reference that doi-utils > added with a very long bibtex key: > > @article{saldin09_struc_isolat_biomol_obtain_from ... > > When exporting to html, org-ref uses this bibtex key as the link text in > every citation. This quickly becomes unreadable, especially if you cite the > above paper several times in a paragraph. > > Does anyone know how easy it would be to customize the bibtex keys generated > by doi-utils, for instance by doi-add-bibtex-entry? For instance, if the > above key were just the first author and year, it'd be > > @article{Saladin2009 > > which would be much more readable after HTML export. I took a 30 mins look at > the relevant doi-utils functions but couldn't piece out a reasonable way to > make the change. > > I guess another solution would be to modify HTML export to change citation > link text, but that seems like the wrong place to make this change. > > Any advice is appreciated! > David -- 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