Deleted one footnote, moved a few around, and now they're all numbered wrong

aag11009

I deleted the first footnote in a paper, and now the first footnote is numbered 2, and I moved some things around so not all my numbers are crazy. Tried refreshing citations, only made it worse.

adamsmith

which citation style? Are you sure these are really footnotes?

aag11009

I'm using Chicago Style with a full note, and they are definitely footnotes. I even changed them to endnotes to see if that fixed the problem, and it did, but then when I changed them back to footnotes they got messed up again.

adamsmith

You could try what happens if you switch to a non-footnote style and back, but generally footnotes are not inserted by Zotero but by the Word processor (i.e. Zotero tells your word processor "insert a footnote here" and the word processor handles the numbering as well as placement and formatting of footnotes) so if they're out of order that'd be a Word/LO problem.

fbennett

Is it possible that there is a scrap of the old first footnote code lurking in the document? That would explain the difference in behaviour with endnotes and footnotes. As a big-hammer way of testing that, you might copy-paste the document content one character before that location to a fresh document, and then copy-paste the content one character after across as well, then refresh in the new document and see what happens.

As adamsmith says, Zotero itself is not the source of the problem on this occasion. Word controls the footnotes, so those are Word's numbers. Zotero is trusting the data that comes out of Word so things have gone a little zany, but once the Word blip is sorted out, it should come right for you.

Keep a backup copy of the document handy, though, just in case.