Duplicate Citations in Document - Not Duplicate in Zotero
I realized my document had duplicate citations, for example (Brown, 2017a) and (Brown, 2017b) although it was the same article.
Steps I have taken:
1) I checked for duplicates in Zotero, merged them, and emptied the trash.
2) Closed Zotero and Word.
3) Refreshed multiple times
3) Disabled/re-enabled Word Plug-in. Again, closing and re-opening both applications.
4) Restarted my computer.
This is a large document (250+ pages) I cannot manually go through and fix all of them.
Steps I have taken:
1) I checked for duplicates in Zotero, merged them, and emptied the trash.
2) Closed Zotero and Word.
3) Refreshed multiple times
3) Disabled/re-enabled Word Plug-in. Again, closing and re-opening both applications.
4) Restarted my computer.
This is a large document (250+ pages) I cannot manually go through and fix all of them.
As I say there: (you can also paste that info here & we might be able to at least venture a better guess)
citationID":"a1rl98ah713","properties":{"formattedCitation":"\\uldash{(Cockerham, 2013)}","plainCitation":"(Cockerham, 2013)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":1871,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/9618196/items/96KQNYSK"],"itemData":{"id":1871,"type":"book","edition":"2nd","event-place":"Malden, MA","publisher":"Polity Press","publisher-place":"Malden, MA","title":"Social Causes of Health and Disease","author":[{"family":"Cockerham","given":"William"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2013"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"
"a":
citationID":"a2ievu70gn3","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Cockerham, 2013a)","plainCitation":"(Cockerham, 2013a)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":"izrJAAzm/8fYFEf55","uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/x7eF6aaE/items/UXYIGNBI"],"itemData":{"id":1959,"type":"book","edition":"2nd","event-place":"Malden, MA","publisher":"Polity Press","publisher-place":"Malden, MA","title":"Social Causes of Health and Disease","author":[{"family":"Cockerham","given":"William"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2013"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"
"b":
"citationID":"a2a0atst0kn","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Cockerham, 2013b)","plainCitation":"(Cockerham, 2013b)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":1871,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/9618196/items/96KQNYSK"],"itemData":{"id":1871,"type":"book","edition":"2nd","event-place":"Malden, MA","publisher":"Polity Press","publisher-place":"Malden, MA","title":"Social Causes of Health and Disease","author":[{"family":"Cockerham","given":"William"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2013"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json
There's currently no alternative to replacing the duplicate citations individually, sorry.
The only reason they don't how up this way when you edit them is that you have automatic updating of citations turned off and that means citations are displayed without respect to any other citations, i.e. no disambiguation etc.)