[Tex/LaTex] Mendeley Citation Key for Citation Style

Question

I am using Mendeley to manage all my references and also used it to cite in Word. Now I am trying to convert the Word document to LaTeX, but it seems that I have to manually convert all my citations to match \cite{CITATION_KEY}. I thought that I could maybe create my own citation style that uses exactly this format but it seems that I cannot access the citation key in the Visual CSL Editor. Is that somehow possible? Converting all the citations myself it a lot of work. Is there anything else I could do?

Answer 1

Using an SQLite editor you can edit the Mendeley database directly and run a script which copies the citation key of all entries into an unused field, for example keyword. Now create a citation style using the Visual CSL editor, that states inline citations like \cite{keyword}

Note: I did not check if keyword is a field which is addressable by the Word citation plugin or the CSL editor. Obviously, the field you choose has to be.