Change "date" entry to "year"

[Izabel94]

Hi, I noticed that in most citation styles I use (ieetr, apacite) the "date" entry does not get recognized. My citations then look like this:

Laumer et al., n.d.
in-text and
Laumer, S., Gubler, F., Racheva, A., & Maier, C. (n.d.). Use cases for conversational agents: Aninterview-based study. In Eds. (Ed.),Americas conference on information systems (amcis.Cancun,Mexico, MX
in references.

So far, I had to always manually change it to "year". Would you mind adjusting this?

[inukshuk]

I'm not sure what you mean exactly? The segment label for the publication date is called 'date'; when labeled correctly, and later converted to BibTeX, for example, the year would be parsed out of the date segment.

If the 'date' label is not assigned to the publication date in your references consistently, then you can train the public model with a handful of correctly labeled references using your citation style and it should work.

[Izabel94]

What is I mean is I get a bibtex entry looking like this:

@inproceedings{laumer2019a,
author = {Laumer, S. and Gubler, F.T. and Racheva, A. and Maier, C.},
date = {2019},
title = {Use cases for conversational agents: An interview-based study},
editor = {Eds.},
language = {en},
booktitle = {Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS},
address = {Cancun, Mexico, MX}
}

The date label is assigned always but year label is not parsed out. The date label does not work for e.g., "inproceedings" and some other mostly used citation types, when changed to year it works.

[inukshuk]

I see, thanks. I think we made that change a while ago, because BibLaTeX began to strongly encourage using date over year. Since biblatex is the best bibtex tool (that I'm aware of), I'd like to stick with their recommendation

[Izabel94]

I see. I just tested it with both entries, the reference is correct, so I assume the year label was used. However, I don't know if this would introduce inconsistencies across different citation types and styles. Might be interesting to test in anystyle, if possible.

[JA-Albarracin-Ramirez]

Hello.

I have a related issue about the dates of my references. I copy and paste the references from a MS Word document and parse them out, with no problem. I download them in a BibTex file. The issue appaers when I trie to import the BibTex file to Mendeley Reference Manager. The date is the only information that is not imported within Mendeley Reference Manager. The field "year", where is suppose to be the date should appear, is empty. The rest of the data: author, title, url, etc., are imported correctly. However, If do this in Zotero, I haven't had any problem. All the references of my BibTex file are imported with no missing information. Do you have some solution to this issue for Mendeley Reference Manager?

Kind regards

José Alberto Albarracín
(Seville - Spain)

[inukshuk]

You'll have to ask Mendeley for support or modify the files before you import them. (Disclaimer: I strongly recommend using Zotero!)

[Library20]

Could there be an option to ‘Assign label’ Year?
Step 1. Parse pasted in references from Word
Step 2. Edit – please could there be an option to ‘Assign label’ Year?
Step 3. Save BibTeX

Thanks