problem with zotero replacing incorrect citation fields in MSword
Recently I have found that zotero is randomly substituting different sources in the field codes in texts I am working on. This doesn't happen to all codes, but rather I notice that a citation has been changed to a different author -- when I did not edit the citation. I have tried to reinstall zotero to see if it helps. Ideas?
Also, I forgot to mention - the references remain in the bibliography/works cited at the end of the doc even when they don't appear in text bc they were replaced by another citation.
Not sure how to trigger it since it doesn't happen to all citations but only selectively.
I have taken screen shots to show how it changes the citation once you click on add/edit, but I'm not able to upload them here.
I'm guessing this is somehow related to track changes, but still shouldn't happen of course.
Then I click on add/edit, and in the zotero bar, it indicates Topol and Hand (the correct, originally cited references).
Then I hit return, and zotero corrects the citation to list 21 and 22 (Topol and Hand) - which is what it was originally, and as it should be in the text.
If track changes are on, it then goes through and lists all subsequent citations as "field code changed".
The problem is that when working with a document with hundreds of citations, I can't go through and check each one to make sure it's actually correct...
But when I click add/edit I am not actually editing the citation, I am just opening it and hitting return.
For example, if, after inserting the citation (20, 21) a space had been manually inserted or deleted, then these citations were incorrectly changed by zotero to list other citations (9, 10).
So far I have only had this problem when using citation formats that use numbers - never when I use an author-date format, like with Chicago.
One thing you could try is if switching to a different citation style and back has that effect. Refresh _should_ do the same, but apparently doesn't always.
But, when using formats with numbers, then the citations that have been manually modified appear to be incorrect because they aren't updated with the rest of the document, but then when you click on them to edit them they still have the correct references in the zotero text box.
Thank you!