Upgrade Storagedeleting citation within text
How to delete a citation:
Am I doing it the best way? I found that the only way to delete a citation is to place the cursor within it in the text, then click on "insert citation" then "ok" then in the "insert citation" popup select "cancel". Then the citation and the reference both disappear (assuming that reference was cited only once in that location). Works for multiple citations also.
If this is the only way then the "insert citation" could be renamed by the developers as "insert/ remove citation"
Am I doing it the best way? I found that the only way to delete a citation is to place the cursor within it in the text, then click on "insert citation" then "ok" then in the "insert citation" popup select "cancel". Then the citation and the reference both disappear (assuming that reference was cited only once in that location). Works for multiple citations also.
If this is the only way then the "insert citation" could be renamed by the developers as "insert/ remove citation"
I just select the citation then press delete or right-click/cut.
NOTE: The citation is already grey, but that doesn't mean it's selected. You need to actually select (highlight) the citation before deleting.
I guess there is no way in zotero to delete a citation.
Consider the following scenario:
I am using openoffice, editing a paper, adding citations. My document preferences are (style = vancouver, display as = footnotes, format using = bookmarks)because this doc will later have to be edited by someone with MS office.
Now I realize I want to delete a citation, say the first one. When I do this, I want the citation numbers for the subsequent citations (and the bibliography below) to change, ie 2 must become 1, 3 become 2 & so on... & if that same reference was used anywhere again below, it must get a new citation number according to its position.
Zotero has the ability to modify citation nos as you add them. But seemingly not as you delete one of them.
None of the methods above (mine and arggem's) work this way. Am using version 1.5. Does it work better in 1?
I would say the following is required: a button/ icon saying remove citation (that the user could click after placing his cursor correctly. clicking that could open a box asking for confirmation, and if it is a multiple citation entry, then a dialog on which citation(s) to remove.
Hope it will be fixed.
So just to recap:
- Bookmarks: not highlighted, not recommended if they can be avoided
- Reference marks: highlighted when field shading is checked, recommended
(and if something happens during toggle you can either try a bunch of undos or close without saving and reopen).
I can't delete citation. I keep trying to delete by pressing the citation number--> add/edit citation then I press delete on my keyboard and after that I press refresh. But after refresh citation is not deleted. Before I've tried to delete entire sentence with citation number but that didn't change number of next citation so I was thinking that citation must be removed first.
I want to delete only citation not reference.
For example:
Today is sunny. (1)
Yesterday was rainy. (2)
Next week will be cloudy. (3)
Today is sunny. (1)
So, I want to delete first sentence, and I want last sentence keep and get this:
Yesterday was rainy. (1)
Next week will be cloudy. (2)
Today is sunny. (3)
Please someone explain me what to do. Thank you
(signed) silas hoadley
bwiernik was answering an unrelated question.
I understand that deleting the citation from the text is enough to remove a reference but how can I delete a citation that is placed along with 2 or more citations? What I mean to say is, I have four citations at one place lets say 20-24 and I want to delete reference number 21 then how do I delete it?
Thank you