Upgrade Storage[bug report for in-text citation] Styles can't merge two exactly nearly fields into one field
I hope double-posting an idea doesn't violate any forum rule, or isn't considered spam. Since I didn't know which category is most suitable, I am asking here as well as the "Feature Request" section.
Zortero can do all its task only in the field that is created at the moment as "multiple citations". I mean if two following fields are created after each other, but they are 100% near (without any spaces between them) Zotero doesn't understand that they must be merged into one bigger field; in order to applying style rules to the new bigger field.
Endnote understands it and rapidly merges the new field to the old field that is in the exact neighborhood; and then recalculates in-text citation numbers (in Vancouver style), as well as other style rules.
For example in Zotero Vancouver-Superscript, adding 5 different citations "one by one" creates this: "12345" , instead of creating this: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5" and collapsing to "1-5"
Endnote does exactly as I wished.
So does anybody know how to fix this problem? Is it a style issue? or Engine related? any solutions are available?
Thanks in advance :)
Zortero can do all its task only in the field that is created at the moment as "multiple citations". I mean if two following fields are created after each other, but they are 100% near (without any spaces between them) Zotero doesn't understand that they must be merged into one bigger field; in order to applying style rules to the new bigger field.
Endnote understands it and rapidly merges the new field to the old field that is in the exact neighborhood; and then recalculates in-text citation numbers (in Vancouver style), as well as other style rules.
For example in Zotero Vancouver-Superscript, adding 5 different citations "one by one" creates this: "12345" , instead of creating this: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5" and collapsing to "1-5"
Endnote does exactly as I wished.
So does anybody know how to fix this problem? Is it a style issue? or Engine related? any solutions are available?
Thanks in advance :)
I thinks at least having the ability would be a nice feature to have, though.
The solution is to to to edit citaiton, select multiple sources and work from there.
And yes, double posting is generally a bad idea on any support forum, because it means that your concern gets addressed in two separate places which is less productive than all attention focused on one.
Thank you for your answer and solution :) However, Vancouver style which I need to use, shows in-text citations only as numbers, so in order to editing all neighbor fields, manually into one "multiple-posted" citation, I have to go through many difficulties to find those citations again from their referring number, and multiple-select them. So it cost a huge effort when writing a couple of essays, each containing many groups of multiple citations to be merged "Manually".
consider this: 1 2 3 5 7 8 9 11 13 15 16 17 18 20 to be merged manually!! {There is no spaces between them actually !!]
However Thank you :) If I can participate in making such a merger, please let me know (I can code with C++ a little), I think the algorithm may consist a conditional statement that checks neighborhood of two fields and then needs to capture their data and re-write into a new field.