The problem

I have 100’s of references in my zotero library. When I bring them to my bib file it ends up in a mess. There are many unwanted keys and there is no order to the references therein. This is the workflow that I have developed to handle the problem

Workflow

Better bibtex: Use the better-BibTeX plugin to clean up the export in Zotero. After installation of the plugin, you can set the fields to omit. Goto Preferences ->Better Bibtex -> Export . I remove the following fields
```
abstract, url, language, urldate, file
```
BibTeX Tidy: This website is excellent to beautify your bib file and clean up further. I use it to have a proper indentation in my bib file and also to sort the entries by year.

Before and After

References

Better Bibtex
Bibtex Tidy