Vancouver citations - failure to update when the document is reordered

nichurnd

Hi,
I am currently editing a Google Doc with Vancouver-style citations. However, I have noticed that when I reorder the document, moving one cited text to another place in the document, the numbers are not updating. This has resulted in (17) directly coming after (14), etc.
I have closed down and restarted both Zotero and Google Docs but there has been no change and the order (or disorder!) remains. I have also copied the text into Word but the problem continues.
Any help would be most appreciated.

adamsmith

What happens if you change to a completely different citation style (e.g. APA) and back?

nichurnd

Hi Adam,
I changed the bibliography to Harvard style. The bibliography itself changed but the numbers remained following the relevant text (and not author and year). When I create a bibliography from the articles in Zotero, it produces a list of references that do not update in real time. However, updating the bibliography in the Google doc resulted in 2 sets of references, all with numbers.

nichurnd

Thanks for your help!

adamsmith

he bibliography itself changed but the numbers remained following the relevant text (and not author and year).

And presumably you have done nothing to manually change the numbers, right (like change [] to () or so?)

That shouldn't happen then. And this is the case for all citations?

Try if you can fix the document with https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/debugging_broken_documents

nichurnd

No. I deleted one manually but apart from that, I have left them as they are. It continues to allow me cite while I write and inserts the reference number. It hasn't changed any of the citations for the first number of pages (before I made any changes).