# Org-roam-bibtex for Org-Roam v2

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**Created:** [May 10, 2021, 10:03pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/org-roam-bibtex-for-org-roam-v2/1574 "2021-05-10T22:03:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 9:54pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/org-roam-bibtex-for-org-roam-v2/1574/43 "2021-05-15T21:54:30Z")

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> [@bruce](#):
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> How do you do that evaluate step?

With `M-:` or `M-x eval-expression`. This was just to check what element Org would return for `[cite:@key]`. So when point is on a link, `(org-element-context)` returns a link element - a list starting with `(link ...)`. If it’s on a headline - then a headline element `(headline ...)`. I expected (after inspecting `oc.el` and relevant parts of `org.el`) that for a citation `[cite:@key]` this function would return `(citation ...)` but it returns `(paragraph ...)` meaning that Org parser did not recognize the citation as Org element and treated it as a part of a paragraph. This explains why following or exporting a citation does not work. But I can’t figure why Org element does not parse the citation in my instance. I therefore wondered may be you had any similar issues.

Actually, when I ran `make` in the cloned repository, the command quit with an error during building the Org manual. Lisp files were successfully compiled before that, so I assumed it was fine to continue. But maybe something else was not built properly and this was the cause of my issue.

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