Upgrade StorageProblem with numbering, bold, and italics in bibliography
Hello,
I am having issues with the bibliography I'm working on. There are two different problems:
1. The numbering is off. The references in the bibliography went from 72 to 75, even though they were correct in the text. I tried refreshing, closing out, deleting references and entering them again (I redid 71-77 just in case), but nothing helped. In the end I had to change it all by hand.
2. Some of the references didn't have bold or italicized parts, but they had i\ instead. Here's an example:
103 Kessler RC, Angermeyer M, Anthony JC, \i et al. Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of mental disorders in the World Health Organization’s World Mental Health Survey Initiative. \i World Psychiatry 2007; \b 6: 168–76.
Again, I had to fix it all by hand by clicking 'edit bibliography', and then it worked. Is there a way to fix this automatically? I use the Zotero stand alone program, in case that makes a difference.
Thank you for your help.
I am having issues with the bibliography I'm working on. There are two different problems:
1. The numbering is off. The references in the bibliography went from 72 to 75, even though they were correct in the text. I tried refreshing, closing out, deleting references and entering them again (I redid 71-77 just in case), but nothing helped. In the end I had to change it all by hand.
2. Some of the references didn't have bold or italicized parts, but they had i\ instead. Here's an example:
103 Kessler RC, Angermeyer M, Anthony JC, \i et al. Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of mental disorders in the World Health Organization’s World Mental Health Survey Initiative. \i World Psychiatry 2007; \b 6: 168–76.
Again, I had to fix it all by hand by clicking 'edit bibliography', and then it worked. Is there a way to fix this automatically? I use the Zotero stand alone program, in case that makes a difference.
Thank you for your help.
http://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_troubleshooting#debugging_broken_documents
will usually fix this - make sure you read 9. before you do 8. - that can be a huge time saver.
Hard to say why you're not getting formatting in the bibliography, though. I don't think I've ever seen that reported. Which citation style is that? And which word processor?
It's not clear to me how showing field codes while debugging will help (step 9 from above). I tried this and it doesn't show any old citations, and the numbering within the field codes are correct, they're just wrong in the bibliography. Is there something specific I should be looking for?
If/when I do find the section where the problem is (step 8), how do I fix it? Am I supposed to delete the buggy citation from my library and rebuild it? Or is deleting the citation from the document I'm working on and replacing it enough?
This may be obvious, but you have tried deleting (and with the help of alt+F9 making sure it's entirely deleted) and re-inserting the bibliography?
In a copy of your document, I'd also be curious what changing citation styles does the latter - this is a problem with the document, not with your library.
What did work was copying and pasting everything but the bibliography into a new Word doc, then adding the bibliography. I tried Vancouver style and it worked, but then I also tried the Lancet in another doc and that worked too, so it doesn't seem to be an issue specific to the Lancet style.
Thanks for helping me figure it out!