Ask for good suggestions for the pattern of bibtex key

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Dear everyone,
I am using JabRef for a while, however, I found that the default bibtex key [auth][year] easily leads to key conflicts as they have the same author name and year published. Although JabRef will add a, b, … after the key, it is still not very straightfoward to know which article this key refers to.
The pattern now I am using is [auth][year]_[journal:abbr].[volume].[firstpage], this pattern avoids the problem before. But usually it has a relatively long name which seems a little inconvenient.
So, do you have any good suggestions for bibtex key pattern? Please advise me.
Thanks in advance!

Best Regards
Liu

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I use [authshort][shortyear], its working without adding a,b,c for a 1500 library for biomedical purposes.

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Thanks for your suggestions! It is kind of short bibkey which is easy to type.:grinning:

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This is not my invention. When using pybliographer some time ago, that was the default behaviour. I found it usefull and adapted jabref accordingly.

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I do not pybliographer before. YOU are the person tell me this kind of pattern. Thanks very much!:slight_smile:

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In our institute, we are using first author, year and part of the title. We are working to support that in JabRef. Using the latest development version available at https://builds.jabref.org, it should be [auth][year]_[camel].

(See also https://github.com/JabRef/help.jabref.org/issues/66)

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Thank you very much!
Very glad to hear that. It sounds great. I can wait for the stable version and then I will have a try.