{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JabRef/jabref/issues/263","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JabRef/jabref/issues/263/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JabRef/jabref/issues/263/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JabRef/jabref/issues/263/events","html_url":"https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/263","id":113381304,"number":263,"title":"Month field wrong when creating library compatible with bibtex and BibLaTeX","user":{"login":"foleyj2","id":827207,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/827207?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/foleyj2","html_url":"https://github.com/foleyj2","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foleyj2/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foleyj2/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foleyj2/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foleyj2/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foleyj2/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foleyj2/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foleyj2/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foleyj2/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foleyj2/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JabRef/jabref/labels/question","name":"question","color":"cc317c"}],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":15,"created_at":"2015-10-26T15:30:51Z","updated_at":"2015-10-27T10:09:28Z","closed_at":"2015-10-27T10:04:48Z","body":"This is for JabRef 2.9.2 on linux but also relevant on the windows release.\r\n\r\nI often work with reference libraries that must be used on both bibtex only journals in addition to biber/BibLaTeX.  Until recently, I didn't have a problem with this under JabRef.  (My students also noticed this problem.).  The problem is how the Month field is formatted.  If you put the month field to \"March\" or \"mar\", Jabref will always put {} around it.\r\n\r\nThis is a problem because biber/BibLaTeX can only deal with the short version without brackets. If you put \"{mar}\" it continues to skip the entries because it cannot convert them into the numeric representation.  It has to be \"Month = mar,\" or biber just returns an empty bibliography.\r\nThis has been mentioned in http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/27898/biblatex-month-field\r\n\r\nWhen BibLaTeX mode is enabled, you can't make a month field, only a date field, which is a problem for these older templates, which I don't have control over.\r\nPlease help.  I don't want to have to edit the file manually to create the Month field."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JabRef/jabref/issues/comments/151441964","html_url":"https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/263#issuecomment-151441964","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JabRef/jabref/issues/263","id":151441964,"user":{"login":"foleyj2","id":827207,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/827207?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/foleyj2","html_url":"https://github.com/foleyj2","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foleyj2/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foleyj2/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foleyj2/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foleyj2/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foleyj2/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foleyj2/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foleyj2/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foleyj2/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foleyj2/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-10-27T10:09:28Z","updated_at":"2015-10-27T10:09:28Z","body":"I would like to update it, but I don't want to use anything but standard packaged versions.\r\nMy students use MikTeX and I use TeXlive packaged in Fedora22.\r\n\r\nJoe\r\nOn Tue, 2015-10-27 at 03:05 -0700, Jörg Lenhard wrote:\r\n\r\nI added a test for the special syntax of the month field in eaf1b52<https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/commit/eaf1b5264a08c7e5718d9decb997fd43e968c1a2>\r\n\r\nEverything is working fine, also with Month = mar,\r\n\r\n@foleyj2<https://github.com/foleyj2> another solution would be to simply update JabRef.\r\n\r\n—\r\nReply to this email directly or view it on GitHub<https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/263#issuecomment-151441303>.\r\n"}}