how to stop updating items?

mmclxxii

hello,

does anyone know how I can make Zotero stop asking me if I'd like to update the citation or bibliographic reference or whatever it's called of an item? I just want to cite different pages of a document for God's sake.

thanks

dstillman

It's asking you because that's not how you use Zotero. If you edit citations directly in the document, Zotero can no longer update those citations to keep them correct, so it needs to ask you what to do.

You add page numbers through the citation dialog:

https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage#customizing_cites

mmclxxii

hello @dstillman, thanks for your answer. I did not know that until I read the page. now, my challenge is to figure out how to add a hotkey to open the zotero cite search bar.

mmclxxii

I did! I made it! now, on to a new challenge: why do the citations show up with intermittent underlining?

damnation

Because you have automatic updates off. The underlining shows that they haven't been refreshed yet.

mmclxxii

@damnation yea, it checks out. thanks for chiming in. though, it's gotta stay. idk if Zotero's got everything in my language so I have to translate the acronyms after I cite

damnation

Can you tell us what citation style, which language and also which so-called locators you're using? Concrete examples how there output Vs what they should be help.

mmclxxii

@damnation what's a locator? Also, my citation style is MHRA 4th edition (with bibliography) but this style is not an exact fit for my university's fetishes so I have to change it a bit.

For reference, my university dictates that a work should be cited so:
Name last name, "article name", publication name [in bold], volume, version, year, page.

For books:
Name, last name, useless facts about the book, book name [in bold], location, publisher, year, page.

MHRA 4th does it with apostrophes instead of quotations and italics instead of bold. and I like to write stuff like ibid, et al. in my own language, Turkish. I know the app has it but idk if they have it for citation.

again, thank y'all for the answers

damnation

We have many note styles available: https://www.zotero.org/styles?format=note&dependent=0

Setting the language in document preferences usually localises a given style. But not everything is 100%< hence my question from earlier.

mmclxxii

@damnation holy!! thank you, my school's style is really there. i'm grateful for you as i can barely use this app. now, i should implement the style to my zotero to save me some time.