What is the purpose of the "Add Citation Links..." in the "Better BibTeX" context menu in Zotero?

[ScientificProgrammer]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me the purpose of the Add citation links... item in the Better BibTeX add-on's context menu in Zotero (please see screenshot below)?

I'm just curious what it does. Whenever I've tried using it, the standard dialog box that I normally use for inserting Zotero references into a target document appears. However, even if I select some references, I don't notice any change in either the source or target citation.

To find the answer to my question, I've tried searching the documentation for Better BibTeX, the Zotero Forums, and the web.

In searching the web, the only result I could find was for a single line of code with the relevant string in the zotero-better-bibtex.dtd file for the en-US locale here in the project's Github repo.

Thanks for making this great add-on!

[retorquere]

It's for the Citation Graph translator -- if you write cites: citationkey1, citationkey2, ... in the extra field, the CG translator will export a GML file showing how literature hangs together. The add citation links will pop up a picker and will write the picked items into the extra field that way. It was useful to me for citation analysis for me at some point long ago.

[ScientificProgrammer]

That's an incredibly useful feature. Thank you for the prompt reply, as well as for making this great tool available to the world!