Merged Word Docs can't generate bibliography

mytummyhurts

I have cut and pasted several Word documents (book chapters) with Z citations throughout. However, when I go to the end and try to insert a bibliography I get a message saying "You must insert a citation before performing this operation." I have no trouble generating bibliographies for the individual documents (chapters) before I paste them.

Using Mac, Word 2011 (14.1.4), Z 2.1.10

Thanks

dstillman

Try setting a bibliography style for the new document before pasting.

mytummyhurts

I noticed on another post that someone mentioned putting in a new citation to the merged document. That seemed to work. It asked for a bibliography style, then (after thinking for a while) it gave me a bibliography! Whew.

Thanks

ugomatic

I'm facing the same problem, which is driving me a bit crazy.
Trying to paste some chapters together for the purpose of creating a single bibliography.

I create a new document, set a bibliography style, then paste the content of two test chapters into it. When I add a bibliography, it's empty. My source documents are in .doc format, with Bookmarks. Same for the new document.

If I do add a new citation, then refresh, the bibliography will only contain the new citation.

Am I doing something wrong? Is this not compatible with LibreOffice?

Using Mac OS X 10.6.8, LibreOffice 3.6.3, Zotero for Firefox 3.0.14

adamsmith

Bookmarks are iffy - I can't get it to work properly with those either in LO.
Converting to Reference Marks should solve this for you.

ugomatic

Thanks, all sorted switching to Reference Marks. Not ideal, but works. By doing that, now even Master document on LO seems to work. Fingers crossed...