[tmalsburg2]

Hi, helm-bibtex author here. Helm-bibtex has support for importing citations directly from CrossRef: Fire up helm-bitbex, type search terms (e.g., title of paper), select CrossRef option, select paper from search results and press "c" to copy BibTeX entry, "q" to close, then paste entry into your .bib file.

[abdullahkhalids]

Thanks for the response. I am aware of that functionality. I, however, usually find papers using the browser (either searching google scholar or on arxiv/scirate). Zotero, then lets me click one button (most of the time), and the entry is available to be cited using a nice citekey (firstauthorYear), and the pdf is placed in my pdf folder with the right filename.

With all due respect to the excellent work you do (many thanks for that), my workflow does not require any manual work most of the time.

[tmalsburg2]

I guess you have to manually export your bibliography, but, still, that's a pretty streamlined workflow. There's definitely room for improvements within Emacs.

[BostonEnginerd]

The BetterBibTeX plugin for zotero automatically keeps the BibTeX file in sync with the database.