Apparently Empty Citation Field

In the early process of learning Zotero. [Configuration is Zotero 3.0.7, Firefox 12.0, MS Word 2010]

When in Word, with the cursor where I want the citation to appear in the middle of text, I click on Zotero Insert Citation, and choose the appropriate reference and type in the page number - but I don't know what to do next to make that info appear in the text. At that point, I can tell that a data field exists.

What final step(s) am I missing?

Alan
  • sorry, I'm not clear enough on where you're stuck.
    If you're using the new quick format insert citation dialog (the default), what you do is:
    1. type a search term into the box
    2. select a citation
    2a. potentially add a page number and prefix
    http://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage#quick_format_citation_dialog
    and press return
    3. Press return again to confirm.

    Zotero will insert a formatted citation that can take three forms:
    1. An author-date citation in parentheses, this would be a Harvard style or APA (Smith 1776)
    2. A Footnote, with the citation inserted in the footnote. This would be Chicago Manual of Style and related styles
    3. Just a number. That would be Vancouver, Nature, IEEE style etc. The references corresponding to the number will show up when you insert the bibliography.
  • I completed steps 1-3, as above. All I see in the document is a pair of closely-spaced dotted vertical lines where I intended to put the citation (maybe a bit of grey in between). That's what I meant by an apparently empty field.
  • we have never seen that. Does changing the citation style make a difference? Have you tried inserting different items?
  • It might also help if you can take a screenshot of what's inserted into the document, upload it to an image sharing site (tinypic and imageshack are two options), and post the link here, so that we can have a better idea of exactly what's happening.
  • I tried both suggestions. I tried a different reference, and I changed the style. Neither of these changed the results. I uploaded a screen shot at http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/99/apparentemptyfield.png/ Please look at the very small object to the right of the purple highlighted text.

    r/

    Alan
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