According to the documentation of the OpenOffice Plugin (http://jabref.sourceforge.net/help/OpenOfficeIntegration.php),
citation properties use a double quote: e.g. BracketBefore="[" for [Doe 1998]
However, if I want to use an empty string like:
BracketBefore="" to get Doe 1998, the Plugin interprets the quotes as strings and prints ""Doe 1998".
This behavior should at least be documented. More convenient, however, would be to allow empty strings withing double-quotes.