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Hi,
I use APA-style formating within Word 2007.
In the manuscript I am currently working on there are some References (interestingly not all) cited wrongly.
e.g. a Paper by Knill and Saunders that should be cited "(Knill and Saunders, 2004)" is cited erroneous (David C. Knill & Jeffrey A. Saunders, 2003) - i.e. it includes the first names.
More details:
- Of course I checked the database within firefox. There is no error with that Reference - its exactly the same as all the others, i.e. usually two-field authors with clear distinction between firstname and surname
- within the same document, (some) other references are correct, e.g. (Alais & Burr, 2004). Others aren't. Approximately 50% are cited correct, the other 50% aren't.
- when I open a new document and put in new references, the same references/all references are correct although I use the same citation style and database.
- when I copy and paste the old text into a new document, it doesn't work
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Sascha
I use APA-style formating within Word 2007.
In the manuscript I am currently working on there are some References (interestingly not all) cited wrongly.
e.g. a Paper by Knill and Saunders that should be cited "(Knill and Saunders, 2004)" is cited erroneous (David C. Knill & Jeffrey A. Saunders, 2003) - i.e. it includes the first names.
More details:
- Of course I checked the database within firefox. There is no error with that Reference - its exactly the same as all the others, i.e. usually two-field authors with clear distinction between firstname and surname
- within the same document, (some) other references are correct, e.g. (Alais & Burr, 2004). Others aren't. Approximately 50% are cited correct, the other 50% aren't.
- when I open a new document and put in new references, the same references/all references are correct although I use the same citation style and database.
- when I copy and paste the old text into a new document, it doesn't work
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Sascha
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E.g. if you cite an author with last name Knill with another article, Zotero will disambiguate. The happens if you cite the same author, but the first names in the database entries are not _exactly_ the same.
I can't believe that I spend hours to find out the reason for this "weird" behavior. In the end it sounds quite logic. Though it means that I have some work to do: since I usually import my references from different websites, the name format is very often very different.
Thanks for the quick help!
Sascha.
there might be cases, e.g., in which Steven Smith and Steven J Smith are actually different authors and obviously a computer program can't know that.