Italicize scientific name within brackets in an article title

s_j_cartwright

I am using <i> and </i> within Zotero to italicize scientific names in article titles when they are output in a MS Word bibliography. But the italicizing won't work if the name occurs within brackets, e.g. A study on humans (<i>Homo sapiens</i>). The name just remains in normal text in the bibliography. Is there a trick to getting the italicizing code to work for names in brackets? Thanks!

adamsmith

works for me. Can you reproduce this consistently? Does it depend on the citation style?

s_j_cartwright

Hi Adam. Yes, it's the same for all the in-built citation styles, for all references I've coded like the above. The only instance it's okay is for a style I specifically downloaded (J Applied Ecology). I tried downloading a new version of the style I want (Nature) but it has the same problem...

aurimas

Can you export a reference that does not work from Zotero as Zotero RDF and paste the file contents to http://gist.github.com ? Then link to it here.

s_j_cartwright

Hi - think I've solved it.... I was manually going through my references and editing the titles containing scientific names using <i> - </i>. While I was doing that, Zotero was saving an alternative copy of the reference under 'Unfiled Items'. For some reason it was only doing this for the ones with a term in brackets. So when I refreshed the bibliography or removed / replaced a reference within Word it always referred to the other copy of the reference, that is, the un-italicized version. The additional files need to be deleted from the Trash too. Then restart everything, refresh the Bibliography and the references are italicized correctly.

adamsmith

That's a little troubling though. Zotero shouldn't duplicate items unless you explicitly tell it to. Anything unusual you did? E.g. did you happen to use the "Duplicate Item" function? And are you sure those items didn't exist in Unfiled before?

dstillman

Yeah, we've never seen anything like that, and it's incredibly unlikely that Zotero was actually creating duplicate items on its own. Can you still reproduce that after restarting Zotero? If so, try disabling any other Zotero-related extensions you have installed.

More likely (though still quite unlikely) would be that this was a caching issue and simply restarting Zotero would cause the items to be updated, but it doesn't sound like that from your description.

s_j_cartwright

I'm trying to reproduce the problem now and I can't. It's neither duplicating or having a problem with italicizing in a new Word doc. I can only assume it was my own error somehow and I was duplicating all the references?!? Just struggling to see how I managed that consistently and only for references with brackets.

aurimas

Perhaps you had duplicates to begin with and you were simply editing the wrong item (i.e. not the version you had inserted into your Word document)