Zotero Problem with "ibid." references
Hey, I am encountering yet another issue with Zotero.
When referencing from the same source, the second citation should be: 'idib. 171'
Instead it looks like this (and it is underlined with a dotted line:
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Classics (London: Penguin, 2009), 171.
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Classics (London: Penguin, 2009), 175.
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Classics (London: Penguin, 2009), 171.
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Classics (London: Penguin, 2009), 175.
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Classics (London: Penguin, 2009), 175.
Thanks.
When referencing from the same source, the second citation should be: 'idib. 171'
Instead it looks like this (and it is underlined with a dotted line:
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Classics (London: Penguin, 2009), 171.
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Classics (London: Penguin, 2009), 175.
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Classics (London: Penguin, 2009), 171.
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Classics (London: Penguin, 2009), 175.
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Classics (London: Penguin, 2009), 175.
Thanks.
Note that this is something you either would've had to have disabled manually or would've had to agree to after Zotero prompted you if an update took more than 15 seconds. I'm curious if you recall which was the case here.
I found a way to bypass the problem, although it is still happening. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I have been editing the document since March so, whenever I am adding new citations it does this. Anyway, the trick is to open the document, make a new citation and then hit the "refresh" button. I don't know whether this is what the "Automatic Updates" thing is supposed to do.
I now have a new (and hopefuly the last problem!). I am trying to insert my bibliography, but the list does not appear. It's a thesis so the document is large (it's about 214 pages). So, clicking the "insert bibliography" doesn't work because it freezes Microsoft Word.
I either will have to do it chapter by chapter and then put them altogether. But I hope there's a way to do it automatically.
Do you have any idea?
Many thanks.
"Zotero experienced an error updating your document.
The operation couldn't be completed.
(OSStatus error-1712.)
@[setTextRaw:field.m:401]
1. In the Help menu, go to Debug Output Logging and select Enable.
2. Attempt to insert the bibliography in Word and wait for it to fail
3. Before doing anything else, return to Help → Debug Output Logging and click Submit Output, which will disable logging and submit the output to zotero.org. A window should pop up containing a Debug ID. Click “Copy to Clipboard” and paste the Debug ID into this forum thread.
Is it possible you started your document in Chicago 16th and continued to Chicago 17th, where the "ibid" convention is not used?
Wilkenson: I am using Chicago Full-note.
My experience with Zotero is that it is excellent when it comes to basic use. During my first years of PhD, when my documents were small (a few pages long) I never had any problem.
But as the documents became larger (more than 40-50 pages) and more complex, with comments from supervisors (through track changes etc), Zotero started crashing at least once a day. I haven't been able to figure out why.
Another colleague using Zotero reported the same problems.
It is a great tool for BA and MA students, but for PhD work it is more frustrating than convenient.
The thing is that in small documents chapters/sections, as I said, Zotero works perfect.
But in small documents you don't need to rely on the softward too much. It's in the large documents where you really depend on the program to do what it's supposed to do. I mostly work with small documents too, but when you're completing the dissertation that's when you do want a large document when things are working and not to spend an hour to export your bibliography.
Maybe Zotero works well with technologically literate individuals, in which case it would have been good to know in advance, so that I could have chosen a different software.
Last, if Zotero is not great with Microsoft Word would have been also good to know with what kind of text software it works best.
If you're on Word 365/2016, it is possible that the document update might fail or only succeed after a few attempts. This is due to the newest version of Word being slower and tending to crash with the Zotero plugin. Unfortunately we currently do not have any good solutions for very big documents on Word for Mac 2016, but if you are able to get hold of a Windows PC or Word for Mac 2011 it might work better.
And thanks for the advice.