citations appear in bold when imported into Word

MaLaRiviere · August 29, 2017

I use Word 365 (version 1707) with Chrome.
About a month ago, citations appeared in bold when imported through the Zotero add-in. How do I change it?

adamsmith · August 29, 2017

Which citation style?

bwiernik · August 29, 2017

Please tell us what style you are using, but I’m guessing it’s a variation on this Word bug:
https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/italics_in_word_bibliographies

MaLaRiviere · August 29, 2017

APA

adamsmith · August 29, 2017

That's quite odd in APA. Do you mean in-text citations or the bibliography? And how exactly are you inserting the citations?

MaLaRiviere · August 29, 2017

They are in text citations.
I am using the Zotero plug in for Word.

adamsmith · August 30, 2017

Could you take a screenshot, post it to a free image hosting site (dropbox, imgur.com) and link to it here?

MaLaRiviere · August 30, 2017

http://imgur.com/a/yZOrv

adomasven · August 30, 2017

Does it occur in a new document?

MaLaRiviere · August 30, 2017

I am astonished. The citation in the new document is not in bold. Thank you so much. Why did it work? I hope all the new documents will do the same.

bwiernik · August 30, 2017

Like @adamsmith mentions, this was a really odd behavior that I don't think we've seen much (if ever) before. I'd predict that you wouldn't run into the issue again.

rukudzo · December 10, 2018

Hello, I had the same issue with Zotero in-text citations in Word. I figured out that this may be due to the text being identified as a "caption" rather than "normal" text.

So, usually, you type text in the "normal" style, but if you modify your "caption" style to be bold, Word can pick up the citation as a caption rather than normal text. I just rectified it by selecting the entire paragraph and clicking "normal" style. You find this in the "Styles" tab on the "Home" ribbon at the top of the screen. Thereafter, citations will not be bold.

bwiernik · December 10, 2018

@rukudzo More generally, Zotero applies whatever paragraph style is set for the current paragraph to the citation when it is inserted. You were presumably inserting the citation into a paragraph formatted using the Citation style.

rukudzo · December 10, 2018

Yes, I realised that too. I guess I got thrown off when my citations suddenly started entering in bold. Anyway, we live to learn.