citation glitch in MS word

oleander71
Hello, sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere but I can't find a relevant thread atm. Just wondering, when I copy and paste chunks of texts between different MS Word documents, Zotero seems to multiply citations. E.g. "Smith (2008). The love life of lady bugs" changes to "Smith (2008a). The love life of lady bugs", even though the citation refers to the same work. It means I have to change every single reference manually which is way too time consuming, especially in a growing document. How can I prevent this from happening? Thanks for your help
  • adamsmith
    Either there is another Smith 2008 already cited in the target document or the Smith 2008 that you're citing comes from a different library.

    You can test this out: if you copy the citation over into a document without any other cites, it will stay Smith 2008.
  • oleander71
    Thanks for your reply Adam. These are citations from same library, author is the same.
  • adamsmith
    Did you test this:
    You can test this out: if you copy the citation over into a document without any other cites, it will stay Smith 2008
  • oleander71
    I did. As I said, the citation changes.
  • adamsmith
    Hmm - sorry to trouble you with that, but this would be so incredibly unlikely to happen that I'd like to see it before trying to get to the bottom of that to make sure I'm understanding you correctly.

    Could you take a screenshot of a Word document that has only the single Zotero citation (no other text, no other citations) copied over from another document that comes out as Smith 2008a
    upload it to a free image hosting site (imgur.com , dropbox) and post a link here.
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