Issue with reports, theses and italics
Hi all,
I've been scouring the site for similar issues and must be either using the wrong search terms or it may not be an issue for others.
My problem:
Correct italics only occur in the title of an item type="thesis" bibliographic reference after the document also includes a item type="report". Weirdly this 'fix' seems to also only work if the report author is alphabetically prior to the theses.
E.g.
intext: (Tonks,2011) <masters thesis>
bibliographic: Tonks, A. (2012). Why am I not italicised? (Unpublished master’s thesis). London University, London, UK.
but then is fixed when...
intext (Tonks, 2011) <masters thesis> and (New Guinee Law Commision, 2010) <report>
bibliographic: Tonks, A. (2012). <correctly italics>Why am I not italicised?<correctly italics> (Unpublished master’s thesis). London University, London, UK
NGLC. (2010). <correctly italics>Fixing problems associated with fields and Zotero<correctly italics> (No. R114)
Only a problem when using fields in doc properties (as opposed to bookmarks)
Obviously it's fairly likely that this is not the actual problem but I'm sort of stumped and don't know enough code to see where in the .csl it's going wrong, if that's even the case. Any help appreciated.
The system:
Zotero for word plugin 3.1.10
Office 2010
zotero 3.0.11
Firefox 18.0.1
imported the latest apa (6th ed) from repository library
I've been scouring the site for similar issues and must be either using the wrong search terms or it may not be an issue for others.
My problem:
Correct italics only occur in the title of an item type="thesis" bibliographic reference after the document also includes a item type="report". Weirdly this 'fix' seems to also only work if the report author is alphabetically prior to the theses.
E.g.
intext: (Tonks,2011) <masters thesis>
bibliographic: Tonks, A. (2012). Why am I not italicised? (Unpublished master’s thesis). London University, London, UK.
but then is fixed when...
intext (Tonks, 2011) <masters thesis> and (New Guinee Law Commision, 2010) <report>
bibliographic: Tonks, A. (2012). <correctly italics>Why am I not italicised?<correctly italics> (Unpublished master’s thesis). London University, London, UK
NGLC. (2010). <correctly italics>Fixing problems associated with fields and Zotero<correctly italics> (No. R114)
Only a problem when using fields in doc properties (as opposed to bookmarks)
Obviously it's fairly likely that this is not the actual problem but I'm sort of stumped and don't know enough code to see where in the .csl it's going wrong, if that's even the case. Any help appreciated.
The system:
Zotero for word plugin 3.1.10
Office 2010
zotero 3.0.11
Firefox 18.0.1
imported the latest apa (6th ed) from repository library
Can you replicate that in a minimal document (e.g. just those two citations)? Can you replicate it with different theses, or just a specific one?
In particular one of the theses, when it is added as an intext cite to a document, will remove italics from all the rest of the bibliographic references in reports, theses and books. The other just won't italicise properly until it is paired with other documents. It's a little bizarre.
Anyway, thanks for your help regardless, I had to ask just to make sure it wasn't something blindingly simple I was overlooking. Now it just seems like bad interaction/bug between processor and zotero. I can live with that :)
This sounds like a bug and we'd want it fixed.
That said, there is a Word bug that, if an item with a lot of (>50%) italics is the first item in the bibliography, that will mess with italics in the entire bibliography. Any chance that could be the problem here?
I can still export the RDF if you need it but it sounds like this is now a known issue? Let me know if it's still required.
You sir are a gentleman and a scholar, you have no idea how much this was bugging me (I was still trying to figure out all the rules to the bug). Thank you! :)
Easiest workaround is to put a fake work by Abbey Aardvark in the bib and then remove it before sending it of to journal/advisor/publisher