#548 BibTeX key generator: 2 fieldmarkers: titleN & :-

[Paul van Klaveren]

Hello JabRef team,

I have started out using JabRef as a PhD student in my research group. My peers are using a BibTeX key that consists of 3 parts:
First they take the first author's name in lower case, secondly the year and finally the first 15 characters (where white space is converted to a "-")

Example:

@ARTICLE{monsuur2007stable-and-emer,
author = {Herman Monsuur},
title = {Stable and emergent network topologies: A structural approach},
year = {2007},
..

Unfortunately, I cannot automate the third part of the key. :(

Suggestion:
a field marker [titleN] that takes the first N characters (incl. white space) of the title.

and a mutator [:-] that converts white space to "-" ).

(or something that does both ofcourse :) )

[Paul van Klaveren]

Of course, I meant to say "..the first 15 characters *of the title*."

Based on the "Customizing the BibTeX key generator" webpage would be a better suggestion for this fieldmarker would be: [titleIniN].

Looking at the common fieldmarkers ending with "IniN", it would be more elegant solution to create a modifier that takes the first N characters of the text produced by the field name or spcial field marker. (Thinking of opening a separate request for this)