Single and Individual Citations for copying

onedayonenoodle

In Style Editor, output of Cerebral Cortex style citation is as follows:

Single citations
(Sillito et al. 1993; Wang et al. 2006; Andolina et al. 2007)

Individual citations
(Andolina et al., 2007)
(Sillito et al., 1993)
(Wang et al., 2006)


If I remember correctly, previously, when I right-click items and select "Create Bibliography from Items..." and choose "Citations" and "Copy to Clipboard", the clipboard contained single citations. However, now it has Individual citations instead. If there was a change in design, I would suggest that choices for Output Mode should be 'Single Citations', 'Individual Citations' and 'Bibliography'.

As a workaround, I noticed that drag and drop items while pressing Shift key will paste Single Citations to the target.

adamsmith

Personally I'd argue that the current behavior (what you refer to as single citations) is simply a bug and that right-click --> Citations should do the same as shift+drag. Three options (in addition to the formatting options) just seem like too many and how often do you need individual citations?

onedayonenoodle

Not at all. I thought somebody preferred individual citations and changed the behaviour.

bwiernik

This has been fixed in the beta:
https://github.com/zotero/zotero/commit/b7507b03a872154fb295a943d472f497a4fbdde5