Word Plugin and in-text citations for author with multiple titles (MLA)

malczyk
My in-text citations are not differentiating between a particular author's multiple books/articles. For example, I'm getting

(Bumke 141)

when I need

(Bumke, *Courtly* 141).

I've tried refreshing, deleting the works cited and re-inserting, and refreshing again. I've made sure I've updated to the latest plugin and Firefox extension. I do not have Track Changes enabled.

I'm on a Windows PC and am using Word 2010.

Can anyone help? Thank you!
  • fbennett
    Which style are you using?
  • DWL-SDCA
    edited March 25, 2013
    the full title of this post (not available in above view but in list view) says MLA.
  • adamsmith
    could you post two bibliography entries that should be disambiguating in the text but aren't? The MLA style should do that, but it's possible there are glitches.
  • malczyk
    Yes, it is MLA, sorry for not including that in the post.

    Here is one example from my bibliography:

    Bumke, Joachim. Courtly Culture: Literature and Society in the High Middle Ages. Trans. Thomas Dunlap. Woodstock, NY: Overlook, 2000. Print.
    ---. Geschichte Der Deutschen Literatur im Hohen Mittelalter. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch, 1990. Print. Geschichte der deutschen Literatur im Mittelalter 2.
    ---. Höfische Kultur: Literatur und Gesellschaft im Hohen Mittelalter. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch, 1986. Print.
    ---. “Wolfram Von Eschenbach: ‘Parzival’.” Handschriftencensus: Eine Bestandsaufnahme der handschriftlichen Überlieferung deutschsprachiger Texte des Mittelalters. 1999. Web. 9 Oct. 2011.

    I'm not positive, but I think what is happening is that the first in-text citation is showing just the last name, so

    (Bumke 141)

    and then once I bring in another title, the subsequent citations do differentiate:

    (Bumke, *Höfische* 200)

    Obviously I need all citations to reflect the short title.

    Thank you!
  • malczyk
    Just wondering if this might get fixed any time soon. Thanks!
  • adamsmith
    Works for me - have you clicked the "Refresh" button in the Word/LO plugin?
  • malczyk
    Yes, I have, a number of times. It does not fix the problem. In fact it compounds it: when I click on an individual in-text citation to edit it, it will show up correctly, but after clicking refresh, the short title disappears.
  • fbennett
    Well, that's interesting. There is indeed a processor bug.

    If there is no bibliography in the document, the refresh will produce correct citations. With a bibliography added, refresh drops the title of the first cite, just as @malczyk describes.

    I'll see what can be done.
  • adamsmith
    thanks Frank for figuring that out - would have taken me ages.
  • fbennett
    This has been fixed. The processor version didn't make it in time for the initial Zotero 4.0 release, but you can try out the change with the processor patch plugin.
  • malczyk
    Thank you very much!

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