Multiple forms of citation for same article

tysonmonk111
Hello,

I am working on a thesis using APA 7 style with in-text citations (AUTHOR, YEAR). It is mostly working properly, but there are 5 or so articles where the in-text citation gives different versions of citation, including a letter, for the same article. For example, in one spot, (AUTHOR, YEARa) but in another spot, the same article will be (AUTHOR, YEARb). Zotero also creates multiple full entries in the references page - the full bibliography information appears to be identitcal with no subtle differences in title, author name, etc. Here is what I have done so far but the problem still persists:

1) I have merged items in my Zotero library. There do not appear to be duplicated articles in my library (Is there somewhere special that duplicate articles might be hiding?)

2) I have refreshed my Zotero app and refreshed Zotero in the MSWord document.

I don't know what else to do. Can anyone please help? Thanks!

  • dstillman Zotero Team
    https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/given_name_disambiguation
  • tfbainbridge
    Could this be caused by having the same references in my library and a group library? I think that's what was causing this to happen for me. Given I noticed it early, it was not difficult to fix manually (by ensuring I always picked references from one or the other library).
  • aborel
    Yes, probably. Items in different libraries (your own, one or many group libraries) are actually not the same, even if they describe the same actual document.

    Personal comment: I hope that this will change in the future, but I can see some non trivial challenges behind it.

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