Prefix: [] instead of ()

Mat.Berlin

Hi everyone,

when using a prefix in word via the Zotero plugin, round brackets are transferred into square brackets. I can adjust the footnote manually back to round brackets, but that's not ideal.

Is anyone familiar with the problem or has an idea where it comes from?

Thank you!

adamsmith

That should happen if you have a parenthesis in the prefix -- are you saying this happens regardless of prefix?

Mat.Berlin

When I insert a footnote in the document via the Zotero word plugin and add a prefix to that footnote and the prefix includes a round bracket, the footnote is generated correctly but the bracket in the prefix added to that footnote is changed from round to square.

Is that intended?

bwiernik

Yes, most style guides call for nested brackets to switch back and forth between square and round to help the reader track which bracket they are in.

Mat.Berlin

Actually, the same happens with a round bracket in a suffix to a footnote. It's changed to a square bracket.

Thanks, bwiernik! I'll have a look in the style guide I use. But I always thought that it's impossible to change the formatting of prefixes and suffixes via the style guide...

adamsmith

I'm not sure this sound right: the inner parentheses should switch to a square bracket, not the outer one. Would you mind pasting a full footnote here as it comes out?