Referencing Style Problem

makifv

Hi,

I have looked at a few posts shared before but I thought the problem still persists so I wanted to share this.

I open the Word document and switch to the Zotero tab. Then I click on 'Document Preferences' and select citation style. When I click on the OK button nothing happens.

I worked on this document about 5-6 months ago and Zotero most probably sees the references as text. Because when I click on 'Add/Edit Citation' I can't even edit the references. When I select the entire paragraph with my mouse pointer, the references would normally appear in dark color (please see second image). However, when I select the paragraph in this document, it appears in light color (please see the first paragraph). The document is the same document. I didn't change anything.

Can anyone who has had a similar problem and solved it please help?
Thanks a lot.

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dstillman

https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/existing_citations_not_detected

makifv

Hi dstillman,

I read the link you shared but the problem still persists. I think I will manually re-add all the references.

Thank you for your time and help.

dstillman

I'm not sure what you mean by "the problem still persists". The point of the page is that this is something you did to the document, and the only way to fix it is by restoring from a backup of the document or reinserting the citations.