newly installed styles don't show up in zotero reference test pane

ike9898

When I install a style, it shows up in Word plugin, but not in the Reference Test Pane. Rebooting didn't solve it. Help!

Zotero 2.1.6
Firefox 4.0
Windows 7

adamsmith

it's likely a dependent style - a link to an existing parent style - in the test panel you'll see it's "parent".
To find out which one this is, just click on the link to the style (rather than the install link) and you'll see a stylesheet in Firefox that looks somewhat like this:
<style class="in-text" xml:lang="en">
<info>
<title>American Surgeon (dev)</title>
<id>http://www.zotero.org/styles/american-surgeon</id>
<link rel="source" href="http://www.zotero.org/styles/vancouver"/>
<category term="numeric"/>
<category term="medicine"/>
<updated>2008-09-20T09:22:05+00:00</updated>
</info>
</style>
The style linked to in the rel="source" line is the parent - i.e. vancouver in this case.

ike9898

Thanks! In the example above the bottom line is that American Surgeon uses the Vancouver style without any real modification, correct?

adamsmith

without any modifications at all, yes.
Dependent styles are always perfect copies - Zotero installs the parent style and gives it another name in the word processor plugin.

When there is even the slightest difference we need separate independent style (that's why we have e.g. three Vancouver styles - regular, with brackets, and superscript - that are exactly the same except for the way the numbers are displayed in the text).

Not all dependent styles arecorrect, so there is a good chance you've hit on one of those cases.