@bwiernik Many thanks for the input. I could not find any guidance from Springer in this regard - I just assumed it had to be with a dot, but you might be right it is without.
I just updated my reference list/bibliography in the end of the article for a final update of the references and suddenly all the reference were no longer listed in alphabetical order. Is there a chance that this can be changed so they appear in alphabetical order? Many thanks in advance.
About the parentheses/brackets: Zotero automatically converts inner parentheses into brackets and that is almost certainly correct. You should never nest parentheses.
Hey! To follow up, is it possible to make a citation appear in full the first time it is used in the document? Meaning that a book or an article would be cited in full in the first footnote where it is used.
Possible certainly -- that's e.g. what Chicago Manual of Style (full note) does. But converting Springer basic to that format is a good amount of work.
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The sort code should only have been removed from the citation, not the bibliography. This should go back into the bibliography:
<sort><key macro="author"/>
<key variable="author" sort="ascending"/>
</sort>
To follow up, is it possible to make a citation appear in full the first time it is used in the document? Meaning that a book or an article would be cited in full in the first footnote where it is used.
Thank you!