references dissappear - partially

lichoacademic
Hello all,

Today, I went back to my chapter - in which I had imported the references in the footnotes - and the references are there but if say "generate bibliography" it does not. I go to the footnotes and the references are not highlighted in gray which means that the link to zotero has dissappeared somehow.

The strangest thing is that I try to import the citations again and all zotero does is put a word in parenthesis (Palquist) for instance, but does not import the reference in Chicago style.

Any ideas of how to deal with this issue?

Thanks!
  • adamsmith
    Which word processor is that?
    If you click on "Set Document Preferences" in the Word/LibreOffice plugin, which citation style is selected?
    Do things work normally in a fresh document?
  • lichoacademic
    Hi Adam, it is word for mac 2008.
    I am not sure where Set Document preferences is but Chicago is the style I am using, that is what is selected. I opened a new document and Chicago is what is checked.And yes, in the new document it works normally.

    This chapter has a lot of information, pictures, different formatting that doing it again will be very time consuming so I am looking for a way to fix the references IN this document rather than creating a new one.

    Thanks for any advice!
    L.
  • adamsmith
    edited October 1, 2012
    In a copy of that document, could you try switching to a different citation style - Let's say American Psychological Association - insert a citation and switch back. Please describe exactly what you see.
    On changing citation styles, see here:
    http://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage#document_preferences

    edit: One more thing - please press alt+F9 and see if any code appears around the old Zotero citations. Something like
    {"citationID":"1e6ra4clus","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Morris, Schindehutte, Walton, & Allen, 2002)","plainCitation":"(Morris, Schindehutte, Walton, & Allen, 2002)"},"citationItems":[{"id":43,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/1135027/items/4ZQFU3DS"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/1135027/items/4ZQFU3DS"]}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"
    And just to be clear - I'm trying to understand what's going on here. The fact that the citations appear dead doesn't make me terribly optimistic, but maybe we're lucky.
  • lichoacademic
    It seems like the style had changed to MLA. Not sure how this happened. But it works now! Thanks a million!
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