Citation style in Word 2007
I am using Zotero stand alone 4.0.17 for Google Chrome. With an MS Word plug in. In MS Word 2007, the Zotero Add In icons show up correctly but the citation style (set in both Zotero and in the Word document references as MLA7) is ignored. All citations are inserted only as (Authorsurname). Changing the citation style chosen seems to have no affect on this.
This is no great problem to me as I copy and paste my citations and the citation styles work fine from within Zotero. But I am about to show a friend how to use Zotero and it irks me that I cannot make it operate as it should. My operating system is Windows 7 64 bit.
If there is a simple solution and something I am doing wrong, I would be glad to know.
This is no great problem to me as I copy and paste my citations and the citation styles work fine from within Zotero. But I am about to show a friend how to use Zotero and it irks me that I cannot make it operate as it should. My operating system is Windows 7 64 bit.
If there is a simple solution and something I am doing wrong, I would be glad to know.
https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage
Edit: btw, as far as citations in Word go, only the setting in Word matters.
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/
My initial failed attempts were with the Chicago, so I wrongly thought that style was the problem and switched to MLA.
But my real problem was not realising that Word formatted citations or was capable of doing that. Please forgive me for not knowing, as it is 12 years since I last did academic work.
I am very grateful for your help and patience with me.
I'm still not entirely sure what you're trying to do - if you're happy with your outcome that's fine - but keep in mind that you don't seem to be using Zotero at all.
I open MS Word and create a new document. Type an example sentence, at the end of which I use the Word reference menu to insert a footnote. The number is inserted and the curser jumps to that same number at the foot of my page.
Zotero stand alone must be open on my PC. I click on the Zotero icon on my Word Add-in task bar. That opens the Zotero screen shown in the Zotero Guidance. I then use Zotero search to select the title I want to cite and, again following the Zotero guidance, click on it and the citation goes into the footnote, with data as per my Zotero entry, complete with Italics.
If this is not correct, I would be glad to know. Although I am new to citing with Zotero, I have moved all my precious bibliographic and archival references into Zotero.
Historians do not usually put author name references within the text and then generate a bibliography. Journals where I was published tended to use superscript numbers, and the notes and references went at the foot of the page or the end of the book. I always used the Word system to do this.
You mentioned using Chicago 15th edition - that doesn't exist for Zotero, so I figured you were using something else
I had understood from previous replies that it was Word which handled the formatting of citations in all Word documents.
Anyway you are completely right. I just tried again, ignoring the MS Word commands and just clicking on the Zotero icon in the add-in bar and, just as you said, it put in the number and the footnote citation each in the right place. Initially I repeated my first citation, and it even put in ibid - complete magic.
Thank you so much for teaching me. And for being patient.
I will pass this all on tomorrow to a retired friend who is sorely in need of bibliographical software but has never managed to master any till now. He is going to love Zotero.