A couple of "Why and How to Fix" questions

CreativeRaven

Here is a title - History and Genealogy of the Brubaker Brubacher-Brewbaker Family in America. I enter all the fields. I "create a bibliography" for the item and copy to clipboard...looks good so far. But I want to save this citation as a note so I don't need to re-create it every time I want to use it in a different document.

Gibble, P. B. (1951). History and Genealogy of the Brubaker Brubacher-Brewbaker Family in America: Vol. I. The Eastern Pennsylvania Brubaker Association. https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/234620/

But once I copy it to the note, creates italics for the title and creates a link for the URL.

Copying that gets me this ...

Gibble, P. B. (1951). *History and Genealogy of the Brubaker Brubacher-Brewbaker Family in America: Vol. I*. The Eastern Pennsylvania Brubaker Association. [https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/234620/](https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/234620/)

If I put it in and clear formatting, I get the representation below, which is better but still insists on the duplicate URLS which means every single citation has to have the one instance plus both punctuations cleared.

Gibble, P. B. (1951). History and Genealogy of the Brubaker Brubacher-Brewbaker Family in America: Vol. I. The Eastern Pennsylvania Brubaker Association. [https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/234620/](https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/234620/)

The above is exactly what copies unless I also take the 2nd step of right clicking the link and breaking the link source.

Is there ONE step to copy with formatting cleared and copy one link only....I have literally hundreds of sources and this kind of workaround is ridiculous. Am I missing something? You notice even when copied here there are two links.....

adamsmith

Where are you copying this to? The behavior of links varies. When copying to a plaintext place such as here, you get markdown for a hyperlinked URL -- hence the two links -- but copying into Word, e.g., will give you a regular hyperlinked URL; same for google docs.

But more importantly, this is a bit of an unusual use of Notes: If you want to quickly create a citation of an item, why not just create a quick citation/bib entry of that item?

And with hundreds of citation, it would also probably make sense to use the word processor integration features.

CreativeRaven

I am using Affinity Publisher. As you say I am creating quick citation/bib entry of each item, but prefer to save them as a note with the Zotero entry as they are used in other contexts as well - including genealogy programs, online entries, and other alternatives to Word that are not Google or Libre Office. As a side note, I find WPS office more user friendly and easy to use. However I do not use word publishers for purposes where citations, footnotes, etc are involved.

This is a shared account, so once I create a bibliography, I need to be able to put the formatted reference in a note so that the bibliography is created one time for current and future use. For us it makes sense to have the bibliography in a note attached to the reference otherwise it is a constant re-doing of any given quick citation.

I hope this makes sense as I have explained it....