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Hi,
I am relatively new to Zotero, which I use as stand-alone on a PC, Win 10 with libreoffice 5.4. I get from time to time the following message:
You have modified this citation since zotero generated it. do you want to keep your modifications and prevent future updates? Clicking yes will prevent zotero from updating this citation if you add additional citations, switch styles, or modify the reference to which it refers. Clicking no will erase your changes.
I never know what this actually refers to and would be grateful for explanation. Is the "citation" the part in the text (e.g. (Miller et al., 2017)) or is it the database entry in zotero?
I often have to modify citations in the text as zotero does (as far as I could see) not offer the option of embedding a citation into the text flow (e.g. "Miller et al (2017) found that..." rather than " it was found that... (Miller et al. 2017)). I obviously do not want these modifications be changed in my text. However, in case I notice a mistake in the database and correct it, I obviously want these corrections to be incorporated in the document.
Would be very grateful for some clarifying words.
Thanks in advance.
I am relatively new to Zotero, which I use as stand-alone on a PC, Win 10 with libreoffice 5.4. I get from time to time the following message:
You have modified this citation since zotero generated it. do you want to keep your modifications and prevent future updates? Clicking yes will prevent zotero from updating this citation if you add additional citations, switch styles, or modify the reference to which it refers. Clicking no will erase your changes.
I never know what this actually refers to and would be grateful for explanation. Is the "citation" the part in the text (e.g. (Miller et al., 2017)) or is it the database entry in zotero?
I often have to modify citations in the text as zotero does (as far as I could see) not offer the option of embedding a citation into the text flow (e.g. "Miller et al (2017) found that..." rather than " it was found that... (Miller et al. 2017)). I obviously do not want these modifications be changed in my text. However, in case I notice a mistake in the database and correct it, I obviously want these corrections to be incorporated in the document.
Would be very grateful for some clarifying words.
Thanks in advance.
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Thanks for the answer.
The possibility of adding support for Author (Date) formatted citations is being discussed by the developers of the CSL language (which Zotero uses to format references), but any such changes will not come for some time.