Zotero not correctly formatting JAMA style bibliography into Mac Word or Pages

Hi All,

I'm working with another zotero user and we've discovered that when pasting over a clipboard of bibliography items into Mac Word or Pages, zotero adds far too much space to the numbering system.

She is using JAMA style, which has items numbered with a space and the reference following thereafter. However, she finds that zotero is pushing the 1 (or whatever the number) to the right margin, then it spaces and adds the bibliographic info to the next line.

Interestingly enough, when she downloads the HTML version of the bib, not using the clipboard option, everything is formatted correctly. But if she copies the data even from here and pastes it into Mac Word or Pages it still formats funny.

Considering the length of all the references she has and will accrue as continues her research, it is cumbersome to have to mess with each one. Has anyone experiences something like this with a numbering bibliographic style?

All help is greatly appreciated.
  • the formatting via clipboard for numbered styles often get's messed up in Word. I believe Zotero copies the HTML to the clipboard, so that's in line with what you're seeing.
    The bibliography comes out correctly both when using RTF export (opens in Word and you can copy from there) or when using the Word plugin.
  • Hi
    I also try the JAMA style and in the references added in Word, published articles still have the "doi:....", whereas in instructions for authors in the JAMA journal, they did not add it (only for onlone articles).
    Can you fix it?
    thanx for your help!
  • Looking at pp. 78-82 of the AMA manual, I believe the DOI is correct there. If you consulted the digital version of the article (which I assume in most cases you did), even if it is equivalent to the print version, the DOI should be added.
    Unless the JAMA editors explicitly disagree with that I'll leave it in.
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