Background Transitioning from biblatex to bibtex with biber for sphinx I recently started a set of notes using jupyter-book. However, in the process I ran into a horrific bibliography related SNAFU. sphinx in its infinite wisdom only accepts a rather odd subset of bibtex. I have been happily exporting my giant bibliography with Zotero (and better bibtex) exporting my references as biblatex while sphinx started choking dreadfully. This post describes attempts to reconcile the biblatex sources ...