MLA in Word 2007

FionaYP
I'm having trouble with the style of my bibliography in my most recent document. None of the titles in my bibliography are italicised when using the MLA style. When I tried changing to another style the titles did appear in italics, but not when I then changed back to MLA. Also, when I look at the entries through the edit bibliography option the titles appear in italics.

I'm using Word 2007, Zotero 3.0b2 and Firefox 8.01.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
  • adamsmith
    Does it work in a fresh document? Do you get italics with MLA there?
  • FionaYP
    Yes, I've just tried and I do get the italics in a fresh document.

    However, if I copy and paste this work to a fresh document and insert a bibliography I don't get italics. Is there a way to make the bibliography work in MLA for this document without retyping it in a fresh document (it's 65 pages)?
  • adamsmith
    This is not my area of expertise - there are small things in citations that sometimes break italics - usually it's author names with special characters (ñ, ö, é - you get the idea).
    I don't know of a good way to fix this - you could try step 4-8 here:
    http://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_troubleshooting#debugging_broken_documents

    If this works with one half of the document, going that route is probably fastest. If the error occurs with both parts of the document it's likely not worth it.
  • FionaYP
    Thank you for this link, it was very helpful. I was able to narrow it down to one citation, which is the first in my bibliography.

    It seems that if my first item in an MLA bibliography is a manuscript then the italics are lost on all the other items, but it seems alright if I change it to being a document instead. Mystery solved.

    Thanks for your help.
  • adamsmith
    Ah yes - this is due to a weird bug in Word - it kicks in if too much (I believe more than half) of the first citation is in italics. Should have thought of that. Glad you were able to fix it.

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