"PM" appearing after citations in tables

estes
When I place a citation inside a table in Microsoft Word, the letters "PM" appear after the citation (e.g. Table 1. Diagnostic Criteria for Periprosthetic Infection [21]PM).

Earlier today when this happened the first time, I just made a new table and the problem did not recur. However, this fix is no longer working.

Anybody have any suggestions?

Citation style: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
Mac OSX 10.5.7
Firefox/3.0.12
Zotero 2.0b6.3
  • adamsmith
    Can you try a bunch of things out?
    Does this happen with any other similar style (esp.: try AMA and IEEE)?
    If you go on "edit citation" and then "show editor" do you see the PM? Can you delete it?
    Are you using reference marks? If so - is the PM shadowed in grey?
    (Generally, citations in tables don't work super well in some settings, so those are just some guesses, this might as well be a more complicated issue.
  • estes
    It does it in Nature, AMA and IEEE as well.

    The "PM" does not show up with "show editor". Just the citation number in brackets is seen.

    The "PM" is not shadowed in grey. (I do not know what "reference marks" is)

    Also noticed today that if I added a second or third citation in a table on different lines, the first one or two citations duplicated (eg a "42" became "4242") and the "PM" in the previous citations disappeared.

    Also, every once in a while when I try to add a citation in a table, a pop-up appears in Word reading, "This item no longer exists in your Zotero database. Do you want to select a substitute item? Clicking "NO" will delete all citations of this item from your document" I then click "yes". The Zotero "add a citation window" pops up. I pick a citation and click OK. The same Word window pops up again and the cycle perpetuates forever as long as I click "yes" in the Word pop-up. Clicking "cancel" or "no" will make the cycle end. - again, this occurs sporadically when I try to ADD a citation in a table.


    Aside from the table glitches it is working great.
  • adamsmith
    edited July 26, 2009
    OK - it's not the style then, but a problem with citing in tables - out of my expertise, but maybe someone can help. Which Word are you using? (this will be important to replicate this error)

    Also, the other with broken citations appears to be a bug - once again not related to the specific citation style. When that comes up, can you create an error report from Zotero and post it here?

    As for reference marks - (the term may be fields)
    When you click on "Set Document Preferences" Zotero gives you two options - one is "bookmarks" the other one "fields" or "reference marks" or something along thos
    lines.

    Edit: I'm a bit concerned about this behavior. I think I would suggest at this point to just add citations in tables manually (ie. just write [42])
    Using the "Edit Bibliography" Button you can manually add the citation to the bibliography later. Obviously the number will not change, so if you have tons of citations in tables this will be very inconvenient. But I'm concerned that the document is being corrupted by these errors and I don't want you to run in trouble with this later on.
  • hungrysokoke
    I am having the exact same problem. The PM is part of the Zotero-generated citation in that it is greyed when any part of the citation is clicked on.

    Citation style: Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
    Word for Mac
    Zotero standalone
  • adamsmith
    Are those citations in a table?
  • hungrysokoke
    It has something to do with time and date formatting, as when I click to insert a new citation, an empty date (e.g. "_/_/_") seems to appear in the active area that will become the citation. Then the PM appears there and stays after the citation is placed. This only happens in the table. Turning off the Autotext date completion option didn't help.
  • hungrysokoke
    Yes, the citations are in a big, multipage table. :) I found that I was able to delete the "PM" from the citation and it didn't come back, but I am worried about the citation number duplication problem popping up. Thank you for your help and I apologize for the scattered comments.
  • clbrace
    Still seeing this behavior using Zotero 4.0.29.15 and Word 15.33.
  • adamsmith
    It's a quirk of Word's handling of fields in tables; I don't think we'll be able to fix this, I'm afraid. Word, not Zotero, is adding the PM.
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