Upgrade Storagecitation problem - multiple articles from same author in the same year
Hi there!
I am a new user of zotero, and so far I am very happy with it. Thank you all for this nice program! However, I have a minor problem. I often cite more than one article from the same author(s) in the same year. I use to differentiate them like "author year", "author year a", "author year b" (not so unusual, isn't it?). Now, if I put in a letter in the date section in zotero, the article appears as "0000" in the middle column, and alike in a paper if I cite-while-write it.
Anybody out there who can help me please?
Sorry if this was discussed already a million times. But it seems I have problems with the search function on this page. I spent a lot of time with it but found nothing adequate.
I am a new user of zotero, and so far I am very happy with it. Thank you all for this nice program! However, I have a minor problem. I often cite more than one article from the same author(s) in the same year. I use to differentiate them like "author year", "author year a", "author year b" (not so unusual, isn't it?). Now, if I put in a letter in the date section in zotero, the article appears as "0000" in the middle column, and alike in a paper if I cite-while-write it.
Anybody out there who can help me please?
Sorry if this was discussed already a million times. But it seems I have problems with the search function on this page. I spent a lot of time with it but found nothing adequate.
Thank you! Indeed, the word processor plugin does the job now. But what a pity that my basic bibliography gets now way more confusing...
Besides, disambiguation letters aren't a good way to permanently distinguish sources—they're specific to the particular set of items you choose for a particular bibliography. Otherwise, if you didn't include one section for a particular paper, or included them in a different order, you'd need to go back to Zotero and reorder all of the sections. They also may be style-specific. The plugin handles this all for you automatically.
In the future Zotero will offer support for hierarchical item types, which will allow you to display book sections under the edited books from which they come.
see: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/4914/disambiguating-between-different-authors-and-editors/
I can't reproduce your problem, unfortunately. I just installed a fresh version of Zotero 1.5b2, installed the style of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, and created two database entries like so:
Title: Article A
Author: Doe, John
Author: Roe, Jane
Date: 2000
Title: Article B
Author: Doe, John
Author: Roe, Jane
Date: 2000
The I ran OpenOffice, and created two citations. They come out looking like so:
First cite (Doe and Roe 2000a), second cite (Doe and Roe 2000b).
If you are using Zotero 1.5, this describes your input, and you are still having problems, I would probably try reinstalling the plugin in the word processor and Zotero in Firefox, and see if that helps. Out of the box, it seems to work exactly as it is designed to do.