Create Bibliography from Selected Items won't work with MLA

anark

When I try to Create Bibliography from Selected Items, I can't select Modern Language Association as a citation format. The format is present in the menu, but, unlike every other choice, it refuses to respond.

This looks like a bug to me -- or am I doing something wrong?

I'm using Zotero 1.0.0rc3 on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.6 (Ubuntu-feisty).

sybille

Hi,
Which kind of output are you choosing - Save as RTF, Save as HTML, Copy to clipboard, or Print?

Also, could you explain more what you mean by "refuses to respond"?

Thanks.

anark

Hi,

I've just managed to fix the problem completely by accident.

Regardless of output format, I couldn't select MLA: all other options in the list were selectable by left-clicking them, but MLA wasn't (or anyway, didn't get a coloured background bar to indicate 'selected' status).

In the Preferences, the default _wasn't_ set to MLA, but as it turned out, Create Bibliography from Selected Items formatted entries as MLA anyway, even if the format couldn't be selected from the menu.

Once I created a reference in a format other than MLA, MLA became selectable again, so all seems to be well now.

Thanks for asking the right question. =)

dstillman

This selection problem with off-screen styles (so, generally speaking, styles towards the end of the alphabet) should now be fixed in the latest dev build. If you're using a dev build, give it a try and make sure it works on your system in both the Create Bibliography and Word/OOo doc prefs windows.

amy dorrit

I have tried this. I had mine set in preferences as MLA to begin with & it still gave me an error message when I tried to export it. I also saved it first to APA and then switch it, which it let me do, however when tried to export it it still gave me the error message. I also tried the link to download the fix but it wouldn't download anything. I clicked & nothing happened. Any other suggestions?