Zotero / MS Word for Mac: Citation style cannot be found

revjdp

When attempting to use Zotero now with MS Word for Mac 16.46 I get a pop-up that says: "The citation style://www.zotero.org/styles/chicago-fullnote-bibliography could not be found."

This renders Zotero useless. It will not work at all.

Solutions?

adomasven

The document you're working with somehow got its metadata corrupt. Debugging broken documents instructions should help you fix this, most likely by copying the the document text to a new one.

revjdp

Thank you admasven...tried that but it hasn't helped.

dstillman

Are you saying you got the same error message in the new document? That's pretty unlikely, unless this also happens for you in a completely new, empty document (which would also be very strange).

If you're getting some other error, let us know what it is.

revjdp

Thanks dstillman. I appreciate these responses. But yes, that is what I am saying. I get the same error message in a new document, in a duplicated document, and in a document into which I copy and paste material from the original document. It says:
"The citation style://www.zotero.org/styles/chicago-fullnote-bibliography could not be found."

And when I would go to Zotero preferences, style manager, nothing was listed. However, as I was writing this reply to you, I checked the style manager again, and after about one minute, suddenly the original slate of styles popped up.

Maybe that was the issue? I will try Zotero again right now and let you know.

dstillman

Were you using a style that you modified yourself?

revjdp

Apparently that was the issue! It's working again!! I have no idea why the slate of styles disappeared yesterday. It was missing all day and now has suddenly reappeared.

revjdp

I had not modified the style. I was using Chicago 17th Edition (full note with Ibid.)