Do not store abstract in citation fields

[tsauerwein]

The abstract of a citation is not needed to format the citation and the bibliography, so there is no need to store it in the fields.

[robertknight]

We store the complete details of the document in the citation in order to enable the original citation to be imported from a document back into Mendeley, or another tool which can work with the same citation format, in future - eg. if you try to refresh the citations after removing the document in Mendeley.

Having said that, we only really need to store enough information to regenerate the citation correctly. The abstract and other information could be fetched from the Mendeley catalog instead if necessary.

[miromarchi]

Hi. I'm happy to see this issue already filed. I just want to add that for very long files (e.g. a typical phd thesis), storing the abstract in the references can become a big unnecessary load and highten the risk to compromise file usability.

I also am interested in what @robertknight said: "enable the original citation to be imported from a document back into Mendeley". Is it already possible? I could make great use of this function by exporting the libreoffice file as latek and the citations as bibtek (through a mendeley folder export).
Thanks

[Haetsal-Lee]

I wish there was an option to exclude abstract and annote.
Especially, there would be no usecase for annote, which is written by user for notes.