Entries dissapeared from Zotero library, but still there in Word document

julia.tiemann
Hi there,

how can it happen that entries, which I cited in my word document some weeks ago and that still show there, appear to have dissapeared from my library? I did not delete those entries.

To illustrate:
In my word document, it says:
"brilliant argument brilliant argument brilliant argument, as brought forward by Author A (cf. work a, work b, work c)."
In my library, only work a is listed when I search for Author A.
I tried searching for the titles of the other works without success.
I'm quietly freaking out just know, unsure of what I did wrong and if this is a one-time-only occurence or if I cannot rely on my library anymore.
Thanks for your help!

Cheers,
Julia
  • adamsmith
    have you worked on more than one computer on that document?
    Could you press alt+F9 in Word (which will show a lot of code in the Word document) and copy the code for the reference in question here?
  • julia.tiemann
    Hi, yes, I have worked on that document on more than one computer.
    After pressing alt+F9 my document is now completely in ruins, code everywhere. Any ideas on reversing that? Thanks a lot!

    Here is the code connected to that particular citation:

    {ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"mwjWzHrm","properties":{"formattedCitation":"{\\rtf (Knorr-Cetina, \\uc0\\u8216{}Soziale und wissenschaftliche Methode oder: Wie halten wir es mit der Unterscheidung zwischen Natur- und Sozialwissenschaften?\\uc0\\u8217{}; Knorr-Cetina, {\\i{}Fabrikation}; Knorr-Cetina, {\\i{}Wissenskulturen}; Knorr-Cetina, {\\i{}Epistemic Cultures})}","plainCitation":"(Knorr-Cetina, ‘Soziale und wissenschaftliche Methode oder: Wie halten wir es mit der Unterscheidung zwischen Natur- und Sozialwissenschaften?’; Knorr-Cetina, Fabrikation; Knorr-Cetina, Wissenskulturen; Knorr-Cetina, Epistemic Cultures)"},"citationItems":[{"id":747,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/812241/items/UKH3XJD9"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/812241/items/UKH3XJD9"],"itemData":{"id":747,"type":"chapter","title":"Soziale und wissenschaftliche Methode oder: Wie halten wir es mit der Unterscheidung zwischen Natur- und Sozialwissenschaften?","container-title":"Entzauberte Wissenschaft: zur Relativität und Geltung soziologischer Forschung","publisher":"O. Schwartz","publisher-place":"Göttingen","page":"275-297","source":"Open WorldCat","event-place":"Göttingen","ISBN":"3-509-01397-2","language":"German","editor":[{"family":"Bonss","given":"Wolfgang"},{"family":"Hartmann","given":"Heinz"}],"author":[{"family":"Knorr-Cetina","given":"Karin"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["1985"]]}}},{"id":1453,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/812241/items/9XH55XX5"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/812241/items/9XH55XX5"],"itemData":{"id":1453,"type":"book","title":"Die Fabrikation von Erkenntnis: zur Anthropologie der Naturwissenschaft","collection-title":"Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft : Stw. - Berlin : Suhrkamp, 1968-","collection-number":"959","publisher":"Suhrkamp","publisher-place":"Frankfurt am Main","number-of-pages":"xxiv+357","edition":"2","source":"Library Catalog - opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de","event-place":"Frankfurt am Main","ISBN":"978-3-518-28559-6","call-number":"2004 A 20152","shortTitle":"Fabrikation","author":[{"family":"Knorr-Cetina","given":"Karin"}],"editor":[{"family":"Harré","given":"Rom"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2002"]]}}},{"id":1457,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/812241/items/5EUHH7AW"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/812241/items/5EUHH7AW"],"itemData":{"id":1457,"type":"book","title":"Wissenskulturen: ein Vergleich naturwissenschaftlicher Wissensformen","collection-title":"Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft : Stw. - Berlin : Suhrkamp, 1968-","collection-number":"1594","publisher":"Suhrkamp","publisher-place":"Frankfurt am Main","number-of-pages":"383","edition":"1","source":"Library Catalog - opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de","event-place":"Frankfurt am Main","ISBN":"978-3-518-29194-8","call-number":"C II 1110","shortTitle":"Wissenskulturen","author":[{"family":"Knorr-Cetina","given":"Karin"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2002"]]}}},{"id":1461,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/812241/items/MW28KRJ2"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/812241/items/MW28KRJ2"],"itemData":{"id":1461,"type":"book","title":"Epistemic cultures: how the sciences make knowledge","publisher":"Harvard Univ. Press","publisher-place":"Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]","number-of-pages":"xiii+329","source":"Library Catalog - opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de","event-place":"Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]","ISBN":"978-0-674-25893-8","call-number":"RBC 000 = 2010 A 12625","shortTitle":"Epistemic cultures","author":[{"family":"Knorr-Cetina","given":"Karin"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["1999"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} }
  • dstillman
    Press Alt+F9 again.
  • julia.tiemann
    Well, that was easy and a little "Monday" of me. Thx.
  • adamsmith
    My best bet would be that not all computers in question are fully synced -- either the one you added these citations on isn't uploading them or your current one isn't downloading them during sync.

    The general article on that is at https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/changes_not_syncing

    You could check if they are currently on the server by following the URIs in the code above:
    http://zotero.org/users/812241/items/UKH3XJD9
    http://zotero.org/users/812241/items/9XH55XX5
    http://zotero.org/users/812241/items/5EUHH7AW
    http://zotero.org/users/812241/items/MW28KRJ2
  • julia.tiemann
    That must have been the problem as now all entries are available in the Zotero libraries on both laptop and work PC. Thank you very much!
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