Thanks for the quick reply, but neither of those posts solves my problem. I'm using styles already, with Arial 11 pt as the setting for the default font in the "Normal" template and style. When I insert either a footnote or bibliography, Zotero overrides -- "manually", as it were -- the style with Times New Roman. When I click on the text, it shows up as have the correct style (with Arial font) but font is indicated to be Arial. When I apply my intended style to the text, it changes to Arial, but everything reverts to Times New Roman when I press refresh.

Perhaps someone could clarify whether this is a Mac problem? I'm amazed that more people aren't complaining about it.

You may want to double check. I don't author on the mac, but documents authored on Linux/Windows work fine on the Mac for me if I modify the "default" style. The plugin seems to have nothing to re-write the default style.

I can't reproduce this in Word 2004 with the alpha plugin for 1.5b2 on OS X.5.2.

I add a reference and generate a bibliography. If I click on the bibliography, the style in the formatting palette is 'Norma l+ Left: 0", Hanging: 0.27"'. If I click on the dropdown & select "modify style," I am able to change the font & select "automatically update." The font changes in the bibliography; the style name stays the same. If I insert another reference or regenerate the bibliography, the style name stays the same & so does the font.

Again, I see no way in the code for Zotero to modify styles. So, please make sure you're changing styles in the correct way in your Word document.

This problem seems to be persisting, even with Zotero 2.0. I've just updated everything now, and the problem repeats:

In Word 2008 for Mac, I use a style for text and footnote with Verdana as the font. If I use author:date, the text of the citations matches the rest of the text (Verdana). If I modify document preferences to a citation format that uses a footnote, the text changes to Times New Roman -- except, as noted, the "ibid". The bibliography is then also in Times New Roman. If I manually change it to Verdana, the Zotero citation text reverts to Times New Roman when I "refresh".

It seems like the specificity of the problem -- especially the clues about "ibid" and footnote/main text -- would make this solvable. Any ideas?

Mac OS 10.5.7
Zotero 2.0
Word 2008 (12.1.7)
Firefox 3.0.10

I have the same problem. The text inserted by zotero is somehow using the default style (according to the format bar), and not the style applied to the current section. I have custom styles mandated by a journal, so changing "default" won't work... I _have_ to use the journal style (including the name - "References_WIREs").

If I re-apply the journal's style, I lose hanging indents. These indents work, along with fonts, etc. using this style in OpenOffice / NeoOffice on the same machine. But since I'm collaborating with someone, using fields saves a lot of headaches - so I'd rather use word (at least for now).

Note also that the zotero plugin on mac word 2008 uses applescript, not the VB stuff. Don't know if that matters (or even how to look at that code - where is it?).

alevisohn - note that you can get around this by changing the "default" style to whatever you want it to be - unfortunately not a solution for davclark - but for most people this should do.
Which isn't to say that this is desirable behavior. Note that the plugins are mostly beta, some even alpha or experimental, so a lot of things will improve still. I've seen Dan mention updated plugins here a number of times, so those will be coming reasonably soon - I don't know, though, if they'll address this issue.

any reason the typical solution - changing the default style - doesn't work for you?

What citation style are you using?

I am using "Water Research". Does that matter?

Yes the default style in Word is "Standard" and the font is Charter and not Times. The Bibliography arrives in Times. Change of the "Standard" Format doesn't help. When I change the default style to another then "Standard" and click in "update bibliography" then Word crashes.

Any Ideas?

Greets

this is rather puzzling. Zotero needs to take that information from somewhere - and "Times New Roman" is afaik nowhere in the Zotero code and it most certainly isn't in either csl or the styles.
So my best guess is still that somewhere TNR is defined as a default - but obviously I can't say for sure. It's been a while since I've worked with Word, so I can't easily give you detailed instructions, but maybe someone else can think of something.

I looked at the source codes quickly and found that the way Zotero does the integration with MS Word is by using an RTF-formatted bibliography string. In the content/zotero/xpcom/csl.js the Zotero.CSL.prototype.formatBibliography function uses TNR within the preamble string.

Anyway, it appears to me that Word 2003 and Word 2007 differ from each other. In my case Word 2007 applies the TNR from the given RTF with the before- and after- paragraph spacing overwritten to 0 whereas Word 2003 uses the default paragraph style.

BTW, for the font itself there is a way to specify a desired font through the font-family attribute that you can put for example in a group element in the CSL file. I still think a better way would be to have an option to use the current style of the paragraph where the bibliography is to be inserted.

I still think a better way would be to have an option to use the current style of the paragraph where the bibliography is to be inserted.

+1. I think it would make sense to do this by default.

I figured out a solution!

You can find it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?&lang=&cr=&guid=&sloc=en-us&dg=microsoft.public.word.docmanagement&p=1&tid=654407C4-2A0B-4B6F-997C-04048110A644&mid=654407C4-2A0B-4B6F-997C-04048110A644

Look for the post by "Jay Freedman" on 8/16/2008 at 8:44am. If you're working with Endnote you'll need to do what he says but to the "Endnote" style rather than the "Footnote." It works!