Bold errors in ACS Style

isaac.darriba

Hi!

We have a problem with the bold in the references generated with the ACS style: in some of them the year is in bold (which is correct) but in others it is not. It even happens with the same article captured from two different sources.

Does anyone know where the problem could be? Did the same thing happen to anyone?

Thanks!

adamsmith

Could you post an example? Are you sure they are all.entered as journal articles in Zotero?

isaac.darriba

Yes, the references are saved as journal articles (artículo de revista académica, in spanish).

The problem happened to a researcher at the university where I work as a librarian, and I don't have access to her Zotero account to capture screenshots. The solution we adopted was to disable the automatic update of the references in Microsoft Word, and then manually correct the errors with the bold. But we would like to know if this has happened to anyone else and, if so, what caused the error.

Thanks!

isaac.darriba

Casually, testing now from my Zotero account, I have just reproduced the error. I leave below the screenshots (reference 1 correct, reference 2 wrong).

The only difference between both records in Zotero is that 1 has the "Extra" field empty and 2 has it covered.

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adamsmith

Do you have any sense of how the "Journal Article" is getting into Extra? That shouldn't be there and is indeed the cause of the problem.
The entries in the Extra field are a bit tricky to understand, but although this looks like it just duplicates information, it actually defines the item type as something that wouldn't be defined at all in the citation style, which then just prints the fallback category.