Italicize species names in bibliography

dmsorger · September 24, 2015

I've been using this teak --> species name in every title of my library items to italicize species names in the bibliography when printed in Word but it seems like this no longer works (maybe the update?!)

Now this is what I get in my bibliography:

Deyrup, M., and S. Cover. 2004. A new species of Odontomachus ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from inland ridges of Florida, with a key to Odontomachus of the United States. Florida Entomologist 87:136–144.

The are printed and the species name is not italicized.

I would like to inquire about how to do this from now on.

Please, let me know if anyone has figured out how to italicize species names!

Best,
Magdalena

adamsmith · September 24, 2015

That's certainly not intended. Which Word version?

dmsorger · September 24, 2015

Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013

I've been using the trick in this version without any problems, my suspicion is that it isn't working since the Word add-in changed (which I updated today).

Rintze · September 24, 2015

If you're on a tight deadline, there is a workaround available that doesn't require you to edit every occurrence by hand: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/3875/rich-text-in-titles/?Focus=26555#Comment_26555

The automatic conversion should just work, though.

dmsorger · September 25, 2015

You all may have caught it in my example but it turns out that this was a "typo" - instead of I had typed which of course did not work.

Therefore, please ignore my question - using species name works perfectly fine!!

I apologize for the confusion!

Best,
Magdalena

Rintze · September 25, 2015

Ah, I totally missed that. Sorry we didn't spot it and help you figure this out!

If only there was an easy way to add these tags!