I have a large library of citations. I decided to use mendeley because I thought that it supported bibtex.
It is totally inadequate, unfortunately. The problem is the citation key. It is NOT ACCEPTABLE to use authoryear, because I have multiple cases where I have multiple citations of the same author in the same year. The solution, which is idiotic, by mendeley is to add a letter.
Honestly, folks, does anyone there actually do research work? If the letter changes, your citations become totally screwed up. I have no idea HOW mendeley makes the decision to assign letters, and since I don't know how it does that, it's useless. In my case, I have my CV with author-year-firstpageno-lastpagno to ensure that the citation keys do not change. Mendeley does not support a user-defined citation key. This means that it is, really, unusable for large document collections.
You need to support a far more sophisticated document key/citation key approach, plus the comments about failure to export this and that indicate that mendeley is simply not ready for actual research work. I am going back to jabref, where I decide what the document/citation key looks like, and I can define this correctly and consistently. I am not recommending Mendeley for others at this point. I spent $110 for a year's subscription to the on-line storate, and I also spent a fair amount of time resolving ambiguities in references. Now this all seems like a waste of time.
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