citations appear in bold when imported into Word

MaLaRiviere
I use Word 365 (version 1707) with Chrome.
About a month ago, citations appeared in bold when imported through the Zotero add-in. How do I change it?
  • adamsmith
    Which citation style?
  • bwiernik
    Please tell us what style you are using, but I’m guessing it’s a variation on this Word bug:
    https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/italics_in_word_bibliographies
  • MaLaRiviere
    APA
  • adamsmith
    That's quite odd in APA. Do you mean in-text citations or the bibliography? And how exactly are you inserting the citations?
  • MaLaRiviere
    They are in text citations.
    I am using the Zotero plug in for Word.
  • adamsmith
    Could you take a screenshot, post it to a free image hosting site (dropbox, imgur.com) and link to it here?
  • MaLaRiviere
    http://imgur.com/a/yZOrv
  • adomasven Zotero Team
    Does it occur in a new document?
  • MaLaRiviere
    I am astonished. The citation in the new document is not in bold. Thank you so much. Why did it work? I hope all the new documents will do the same.
  • bwiernik
    Like @adamsmith mentions, this was a really odd behavior that I don't think we've seen much (if ever) before. I'd predict that you wouldn't run into the issue again.
  • rukudzo
    Hello, I had the same issue with Zotero in-text citations in Word. I figured out that this may be due to the text being identified as a "caption" rather than "normal" text.

    So, usually, you type text in the "normal" style, but if you modify your "caption" style to be bold, Word can pick up the citation as a caption rather than normal text. I just rectified it by selecting the entire paragraph and clicking "normal" style. You find this in the "Styles" tab on the "Home" ribbon at the top of the screen. Thereafter, citations will not be bold.
  • bwiernik
    @rukudzo More generally, Zotero applies whatever paragraph style is set for the current paragraph to the citation when it is inserted. You were presumably inserting the citation into a paragraph formatted using the Citation style.
  • rukudzo
    Yes, I realised that too. I guess I got thrown off when my citations suddenly started entering in bold. Anyway, we live to learn.

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