I use Mendeley to manage references. Mendeley has a nice auto-import feature that will pull down bibliographic data from the web to my database. When writing, my workflow typically involves grabbing references from Mendeley in bibtex format. The simplest way to do this involves right-clicking on a publication and selecting “copy citation”. Provided that one has already selected “bibtex generic citation style” in the View->Citation Style menu, this action results in the full bibtex entry being copied to the clipboard.
At least, that’s how it’s supposed to work.
For a couple of years now, I’ve had the problem that I get this on the clipboard instead:
Error: JavaScript error found: CSL error: Exception: TypeError: ‘undefined’ is not a function, 515, file:///Applications/Mendeley%20Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/citeproc-js/citeproc.js
Despite this problem being reported by numerous users, Mendeley has never provided a fix that worked for me. But today, after discussion with Mendeley support, I found my own fix.
What to do: Just replace the file
~/Library/Application Support/Mendeley Desktop/citationStyles-1.0/bibtex.csl
with the one found at
http://www.zotero.org/styles/bibtex
Then re-open Mendeley. That’s it. Of course, I reccomend just moving your bibtex.csl rather than deleting it, in case anything goes wrong.
