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Quotation marks and braces may both function as delimiters in key fields in bib-files. In WikiBook-LaTeX/Bibliography Management it is reasonably suggested that one uses quotation marks (" and ") instead of braces ({ and }). My TeXstudio latex editor uses { and } by default when inserting bibliography entries.

Is there a setting in TeXstudio to change the defaults to quotation marks for the insertions?

Frode Alfson Bjørdal
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  • Does this answer your question? Is there a difference between "" and {} in BibTeX? – Marijn May 18 '21 at 15:20
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    See also https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/179225/numbers-in-bibtex-entries-syntax-highlighting-vs-reality that explains that numeric fields do not need any delimiter (just year = 2021). – Marijn May 18 '21 at 15:22
  • @Marijn No, my question is not answered by what you link to. I know that quotation marks and braces are interchangeable in bib-files, and ask whether one may change the defaults of TexStudio to quotation marks for the inserted key fields. – Frode Alfson Bjørdal May 18 '21 at 15:27
  • Ah ok, I did not understand your question then. I have retracted my close vote. I guess the wording is a bit ambiguous, I interpreted "may one" as "is it allowed" and not "how to". I'll try to edit. – Marijn May 18 '21 at 15:31
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    I find it unreasonable to use double quotes as delimiters: the braces help in balancing text. – egreg May 18 '21 at 20:28
  • @egreg Whether the text in a bibliography entry is balanced or not is a rather subjective matter, it seems to me. The author of the text I linked to emphasizes the potential for confusion between the braces as delimiters and their special roles e.g. in preserving capital letters, and this appears to be a valid point. – Frode Alfson Bjørdal May 18 '21 at 21:45
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    @Sapiens I disagree. It's inconsistent with the standard conventions of TeX, for instance, and I fail to see a point in that consideration. Opinions, anyway. – egreg May 18 '21 at 22:37
  • @egreg I see your point with balancing the text now, and agree. If you write an answer, you will do a service if it moves someone to edit the Wikilatex book. – Frode Alfson Bjørdal May 19 '21 at 00:10

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