Orphaned citations in Word document

dstillman

This discussion was created from comments split from: Removing duplicate citations and updating bibliography.

johnsocamd

I am having the same issue where I believe what are known as the "orphaned" references in my word document are still there regardless of their presence in my library. I didn't know about merging documents until I looked into solving this issue and it's now quite out of hand.

I toggled on field codes for a reference and a single reference is close to a full page of text in my document. I have no idea how to use any of this to remedy my situation. I have tried to hunt down the orphaned references and it just seems to move them father down the list.

Any assistance at all would be much appreciated. I'm hoping maybe there might be a cleaner remedy to this by now? Looking around online it seems a lot of people pretty frequently make the same mistake that I have made here.

dstillman

@johnsocamd: If you've already deleted the other items, you'll need to replace your citations using the items still in your library. See the "Deleted Items" section here (different issue, same cause, test, and fix).

johnsocamd

Thank you for your reply. I found that page the night of. Unfortunately I had deleted all of my items from the trash out of habit I guess. I manually reassigned all of them. Guess I should have looked at a hints and tips page first to clue me into the merging.

Thanks again.