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There a previous question on this subject Can one "manually override" BibTeX's choice of citation keys by adding a field to the entry?

Let me recall it. There are sometimes one wants to edit BibTex's choice of citation key. For example, for a paper by Freyd, Hoste, Lickorish, Millet, Ocneano and Yetter someone may want to cite [HOMFLY] instead of [FHL+95]. This was solved in above's question by the command

shorthand = {NewLabel}

so that the cite is labelled as [NewLabel].

My problem is getting this on a concrete example. I am using \bibliographystyle{amsalpha} and I am writing

@book{SGA6,
 shorthand = {SGA6},
 title = {Th\'eorie des intersections et th\'eor\`eme de {R}iemann-{R}och},
 series = {Lecture Notes in Mathematics},
 volume  = "225",
 note = {S{\'e}minaire de G{\'e}om{\'e}trie Alg{\'e}brique du Bois-Marie 1966--1967 (SGA 6)},
 publisher = {Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York},
 year = {1971},
}

However, I am gettingenter image description here instead of [SGA6] and I don't know why.

Does anyone know how to solve this?

Thank you very much for your help.

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Tintin
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    In the question you quoted, the shorthand field solution is for use with biblatex, and not bibtex. – Willie Wong Jul 05 '16 at 16:55
  • Thank you Willie Wong and others for pointing out the duplicate. Before closing and erasing this question. I think that the good solution is then to switch to Biblatex and not remain with just bibtex (which I don't have any reason for that). I included the code \usepackage{biblatex} but then it gives me the error Command \bibhand already defined. I have searched on the web but I don't know how to solve it. By the way, I am using \journal{Journal of \LaTeX\ Templates} in case it is the source of the problem – Tintin Jul 06 '16 at 10:36
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    you should ask that as a separate question! Many people who can answer your follow-up question will not see it if you put it as a comment to a closed question. – Willie Wong Jul 06 '16 at 13:11

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