"From Duplicate" Folder under some references messing things up
Hi All,
I switched from Mendeley to Zotero. I've noticed that some citations show ups as duplicates, e.g. "1988a" and "1988b", yet there are no Duplicate Items detected by Zotero. However, when I look at a reference and open the little carrot menu, there is a folder showing up called "From Duplicate 1 (*.name of article)". I am guessing that this has something to do with the problem I am having. I also am having trouble finding anyone else with this issue. What is this "From Duplicate" folder, and how do I merge it with a functioning reference?
Thank you for any advice.
I switched from Mendeley to Zotero. I've noticed that some citations show ups as duplicates, e.g. "1988a" and "1988b", yet there are no Duplicate Items detected by Zotero. However, when I look at a reference and open the little carrot menu, there is a folder showing up called "From Duplicate 1 (*.name of article)". I am guessing that this has something to do with the problem I am having. I also am having trouble finding anyone else with this issue. What is this "From Duplicate" folder, and how do I merge it with a functioning reference?
Thank you for any advice.
Here is an image of what I am seeing for clarity.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rwole4cn2mo9gsj/2020zotero_example.PNG?dl=0
What I *think* may be happening is that the import from Mendeley worked well on the reference side, but the Word document I am working on has links in it from Mendeley that are mucking up something in Zotero. I am not a programmer, so hopefully that is not too outlandish sounding. All I know is I want to be 100% Zotero, and get this issue resolved. Thank you.
Yes, while Zotero can read and use existing Mendeley citations in the Word document, those citations won't be linked to the imported items in your Zotero database. (It's possible we could support that in the future, but it doesn't happen now.) So for anything you want to cite a second time, you'd need to replace the original citation as well.
I will go through and update all citations to match ones in "My Library", but I have noticed another reason to do this. When I add a bibliography any citation that was originally Mendeley is incomplete. For example, the authors, year, article, and journal appear correctly, but there is no issue or page number. This means I need to update all citations individually--it would be helpful if this was automated. Interestingly, while page number etc are missing on the desktop reference manager side, the DOI is not. It would be powerful to have the ability to 'update based on an identifier". Currently, I need to copy the DOI, create a new reference with the same DOI, and then merge the new reference with the old one. However, even doing this doesn't seem to add the page numbers when I refresh the bibliography.
Either way, I will go through and update the old Mendeley citations (~100 pg document, so it's going to be a very long while), but I am now concerned about the page issue/volume/page-numbers not showing up in the bibliography.