Zotero deleting manual references from Word Doc bibliography
Hi everyone
I have Zotero synced with Microsoft Word and have never had issues over 3 years. Recently however, it has been failing to save manually typed references within the bibliography (e.g. reports etc that I can't save and sync to Zotero that I had to type in myself).
My peers suggested I manually input the reference into Zotero so the bibliography is always synced. Is this the only way to avoid having external references deleted? I swear Microsoft Word used to be able to cope with a bibliography that has both references from Zotero and typed-in references!
Thanks
I have Zotero synced with Microsoft Word and have never had issues over 3 years. Recently however, it has been failing to save manually typed references within the bibliography (e.g. reports etc that I can't save and sync to Zotero that I had to type in myself).
My peers suggested I manually input the reference into Zotero so the bibliography is always synced. Is this the only way to avoid having external references deleted? I swear Microsoft Word used to be able to cope with a bibliography that has both references from Zotero and typed-in references!
Thanks
https://www.zotero.org/support/getting_stuff_into_your_library
This will let you insert citations using Zotero that automatically update like other items.
Beyond that, you are correct that you can't manually type things directly into a Zotero bibliography--those changes will be overwritten the next time the Zotero bibliography refreshes (e.g., when you add a new Zotero citation). The best method to add an item to a Zotero bibliography is to insert a citation for it in the document (as described above). The next best option is to click the Edit Bibliography button on the Zotero ribbon tab/toolbar and add the item in that window. The least flexible option is to wait until you have completely finished writing. Then, save a new copy of the document and click the Remove Field Codes button on the Zotero ribbon/toolbar. This will completely disconnect the document from Zotero and convert all citations/bibliography to plain text. Then, you can manually edit the bibliography as you would any other text.
(Note that you can manually type in a Zotero citation [in-text reference], but this will disable automatically updating of that citation by Zotero.)