RTF Scan not recognizing item

dstillman

This discussion was created from comments split from: rtf scan not working.

donncha77

Hi
I've set up an RTF file with these two lines:
{Kavanagh, 2019}
{Tocqueville, "Democracy in America, Volume 1", 1835}
I typed in the first line and I copied the second one over from Zotero (after setting the default export format as RTF Scan) using cmd-shift-C (I've a Mac).

I then ran Tools>RTF scan, which converted the first citation but not the second, giving me:
(Miscione and Kavanagh 2019)
{Tocqueville, "Democracy in America, Volume 1", 1835}
Miscione, G. and Kavanagh, D. (2019). A claim upon what? Cryptocurrencies as
‘scene’. In: L. Dobusch, G. von Krogh, and R. Whittington (eds.). 2019, Edinburgh,
Scotland.

Why might this be? Why wasn't the second citation converted?
Thanks
Donncha

dstillman

I would guess that the comma in the title is breaking this. That will need to be fixed, but if you just remove the title, it should work.

donncha77

Thanks, but I've tried another one without a comma and I get the same issue:
(Kavanagh et al. 2019)
{Owen, "A New View of Society and Other Writings", 1815}

Kavanagh, D., Miscione, G. and Ennis, P. (2019). ‘The Bitcoin Game: Ethno-Resonance as Method’. Organization. 26 (4): 517–36.

Donncha

dstillman

And if you remove the title part?

donncha77

Thanks
Yes, if I remove the title part it works, but the webpage on RTF Scan (https://www.zotero.org/support/rtf_scan) indicates that including the title shouldn't be a problem.

Thanks again.
Donncha