# Universal Citekey Generator

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**Category:** Features\
**Created:** [December 1, 2020, 1:30pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/universal-citekey-generator/2441 "2020-12-01T13:30:53Z")\
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The functionality could be added as a “special field”, e.g., `[PapersCitationKey]`. However, unless the linked source-code is the actual code used by Papers 2/3 it might produce different results (depending on how they deal with unicode).  
If you are referring to [https://www.papersapp.com/](https://www.papersapp.com/) , perhaps it would be possible to ask them what is being used?

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