diff --git a/src/insets/InsetBibitem.cpp b/src/insets/InsetBibitem.cpp
index c347bacfdf..fcd4c746c4 100644
--- a/src/insets/InsetBibitem.cpp
+++ b/src/insets/InsetBibitem.cpp
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ void InsetBibitem::fillWithBibKeys(BiblioInfo & keys, InsetIterator const & it)
 {
 	docstring const key = getParam("key");
 	BibTeXInfo keyvalmap(false);
-	keyvalmap.label(trim(getParam("label")));
+	keyvalmap.label(bibLabel());
 	DocIterator doc_it(it); 
 	doc_it.forwardPos();
 	keyvalmap[from_ascii("ref")] = doc_it.paragraph().asString();