Error, year showing up at beginning AND end of citation

jbatista1

I'm not sure why this is happening, and it hasn't happened before, but for some reason, the year is showing up at the beginning and end of the citations in the bibliography section.


Examples:

Hayden, B.
1979 Lithic Usewear Analysis. Academic Press, New York, 1979.

Irwin, Henry J., and Cynthia Irwin
1959 Excavations at the LoDaisKa site, Colorado. American Antiquity 27(1):114–115.


Possible factors:
-Journal citations are the only ones that do not have the year twice.
-Style: SAA (Society for American Archaeology) https://www.zotero.org/styles/society-for-american-archaeology
-The document is being edited by multiple people remotely with a VPN, a common drive, and a shared Zotero library. There has not been an issue working this way until now.
-In-text citations are fine.
-Here's a weird one...if I change the style to American Sociological Association 6th Edition, then change it back to Society for American Archaeology (formatting gets all weird), and then I undo EVERYTHING...it fixes it. This "solution" works locally but not on the VPN.

Any thoughts? Is it just the VPN?

adamsmith

CC @damnation -- I didn't check, but I think you updated the style recently?

jbatista1

@adamsmith Just looked, it seems the style was updated on 4/10/2020. Could this be a result of multiple users with different versions of the style?

jbatista1

Playing around some more, it seems like this issue is inherent in the new version. I still have the old version, so when I re-install that, I press refresh a couple times and it's just fine.

Was this intentional? If so, is there a way to prevent Zotero from updating citations automatically?

adamsmith

I don't _think_ duplicating the date was intentional, no -- the person who made the change will weigh in.
There's no easy way to prevent updating of citation styles (and probably you'd want to benefit from other fixes), but you can change the id of the old style if you're in a rush:
https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step#change_the_style_title_and_id

damnation

I'll look into fixing the style tomorrow morning, European time zone.

jbatista1

Thanks to both of you!

damnation

Right click the link, save as and install. Let me know if it's all good now.
(it was indeed just a tiny mistake easy to fix)

https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/raw/e042696d4a254f537ce3e493280602e2ebb4e6b4/society-for-american-archaeology.csl

jbatista1

Thanks a lot for the speedy response, that seems to have fixed it.