full citation in new chapters

rach625

Zotero fails to recognize a new chapter in Microsoft Word and thus the footnote that has been cited in previous chapters appears as a shortened footnote, instead of a full citation which is usually required when a source appears for the first time in a new chapter. Is there any fix on this? Will this feature be included in future updates?

adamsmith

You can pretty easily work around this by keeping Chapters in separate files, but that's the only available solution. I don't think this will make it as a feature in Zotero -- Word sections are used for all types of things and restarting citations after each section could lead to all types of undesirable consequences.

rach625

Thanks, Adam. I want to keep all the chapters together in one file, so then it seems that the only solution is to manually edit the footnotes in a new chapter.

adamsmith

You'll also run into performance issues in book length manuscripts, btw., so I'd advise against that, but it's up to you.

rach625

Can you please elaborate on that?

adamsmith

Word isn't great in 300 page documents to start with, especially with many footnotes, but more pertinent here, Zotero will slow down significantly in a book-length manuscript with the respective number of citations. Depending on your setup it'll take anywhere from 20secs to 2mins to insert a new citation.

rach625

I see. Thanks for explaining. But if I divide the different chapters into separate files, won't it be messed up when I merge them all together into one file later on? I need to submit my dissertation as a single file.

adamsmith

What do you expect to get messed up? I assume authoring in chapters is the default mode for books and dissertations. It's what I did and it's certainly what I see most frequently.

rach625

Okay, thanks!