Nodes of type "conference proceeding" are not properly rendered when exported to BibTex [#816134]

When I export a bibliography list to the BibTex format, most entries are properly recognized, however, entries of type "conference proceeding" are exported with the @proceedings header. This makes LaTeX (using the apalike citation format) not output the author name, but just the node number, as the reference key.

The more adequate @inproceedings header is set (in biblio.type.mapper.inc) to 103 (Conference Paper). However, @conference is also mapped to this same key (I guess this was basically done for importing).

I might be misunderstand how conference proceedings are most often cited, but I understand the more common fashion is to cite an individual chapter instead of the whole volume. Thus, it would be more useful to export Conference Proceedings (104) as @inproceedings.

Comments

Comment #1

rjerome commented 4 June 2010 at 00:11

You can change this on the 'admin/settings/biblio/fields/typemap/bibtex' page. This setting is stored in the database so it will be persistent through module updates.

Ron.

Comment #2

rene_w commented 15 July 2010 at 13:10

Just stumbled across this as well -- I think that's a bug, since type "inproceedings" is imported from bibtex into biblio "conference paper", but on bibtex export (of the same entry) not mapped back to "inproceedings" (but rather to "conference", which afaik isn't widely used in standard bibtex).

I looked at the mentioned 'admin/settings/biblio/fields/typemap/bibtex', but this seems about _import_ mapping of bibtex entries, whereas the problem here is the _export_?