temporary citation format in Word

mmckone

Hi Everyone:
I have not used Zotero in a little while. I went in today and added a citation from Zotero to a Word document (using APA style) and it inserted the citation in temporary citation format.
does anyone know why a citation would insert in a temporary format and how to resolve it?

bwiernik

What exactly do you mean by “temporary format”? If you open the Document Preferences window in the Zotero tab in Word, there is a check box to enable/disable automatic updates. You might have disabled updates when a pop up window offered the option after a slow update (e.g., in a long document).

mmckone

Hi!
When I insert a citation, it displays the entire raw record for the citation in squiggly brackets "{}"
If i unlink the citations, they display in proper format. Is this the way CWYW works now? The enable/disable updates is checked.

here is a partial example of how it looks in Word (the rest of the display is the entire record as stored in Zotero):
ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"3owe8tEM","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Oyejide and Oke, 1995)","plainCitation":"(Oyejide and Oke

adamsmith

No, you're just seeing https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/word_field_codes. Don't unlink citations.

mmckone

alt-F9 worked perfectly in Word to display the formated text rather than the field codes. Thank you!