Unlinking references on google docs

twcomp · August 25, 2020

The references in the lower half of my google doc all became unlinked over the past few days, so I spent a good 45minutes relinking them all last night. And now the bottom 2/3rds has become unlinked! So frustrating! Is there anything I'm doing wrong?

adomasven · August 25, 2020

Do you have collaborators for this document? Do they have the Zotero Connector installed? If you go into File -> Version History, can you find the instance where large parts of text that got unlinked were moved or edited? If you restore the document to the version prior to those edits are the citations linked?

twcomp · August 25, 2020

Thanks for the reply. There are no collaborators on the document. And it's difficult to tell at what point it happened.

dstillman · August 25, 2020

As Adomas says, you should be able to tell by reviewing the version history. Make a copy of the document, and then revert to previous versions and click Refresh to see if you still get the warning, and keep doing that until you figure out the change caused it.