Upgrade StorageMy CSL works differently in Style Editor vs Word
I'm citing books by the author Rene Girard.
When I check my slightly-altered MLA code in the Zotero Style Editor, citations appear correctly as (Girard 2) or whatever the page number is.
However, throughout my Word document, his name always appears in full as (Rene Girard 2).
At one point his name was inconsistent in my Zotero library, sometimes appearing with an acute above the e in Rene. I understand this will make the full name appear for disambiguation. However, I have fixed this in my Zotero library days ago, and it's not changing in my Word document despite many refreshes.
It works fine in the Style Editor. Why isn't Word playing along?
When I check my slightly-altered MLA code in the Zotero Style Editor, citations appear correctly as (Girard 2) or whatever the page number is.
However, throughout my Word document, his name always appears in full as (Rene Girard 2).
At one point his name was inconsistent in my Zotero library, sometimes appearing with an acute above the e in Rene. I understand this will make the full name appear for disambiguation. However, I have fixed this in my Zotero library days ago, and it's not changing in my Word document despite many refreshes.
It works fine in the Style Editor. Why isn't Word playing along?
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Disambiguation really is the only reason I can think of for this.
I have also now tested this in a new Word document, and citations appear correctly there. So it's just this one particular document (my thesis) that the error occurs in. Both existing and newly-inserted citations in my thesis display his full name.
Baffling.
And the Rene Girard citation -- that does contain a book title for disambiguation? (in case it does - remember to always copy things exactly as they are, don't provide made up examples).
When I check my Zotero library, the acute is present in every entry.
But it's not appearing in my Biblio that way, and this must be why it's disambiguating by presenting his first name.
Guess I have to go all the way through and re-insert every citation from my now neat and clean library?
That's why Zotero has a merge duplicate function.
I can't just search for 'Rene' etc. because there are lots of references that are the page number only, and if even one of those references a deleted item, disambiguation will continue to apply, right? So I need to remove every citation in the doc that is 'bad' i.e. refers to an old item.
I've also had a close look at the Bibliography, and Girard actually appears FIVE times as separate authors. Twice with an acute, and 3 times without. That seems additionally weird, but I guess it's less important than the obvious fact that obsolete citations are the issue, and need to be removed.
I toggled the field codes and noted the unique ID of my current library citations for book X. Then I found old citations of that book with a different ID. Combing through instances of the old ID, I replaced them with new citations. Repeat for books Y, Z, etc.
There were only a few dozen old citations, which was much faster than re-inserting every single citation in a 250-page document.
Viola! Clean bibliography, and no more disambiguated in-text citations.