# Year has been replaced by date

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**Created:** [October 13, 2020, 11:37pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/year-has-been-replaced-by-date/2357 "2020-10-13T23:37:03Z")\
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Your library is in biblatex format (and biblatex uses “date” and not “year”) and I guess you are expecting a BibTeX file.  
Go to LIbrary -\> Library properties, and change the library mode (2nd item). That’s it!

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