Upgrade Storageunlinking a stand alone bibliography
Dear Zotero community - I'm hoping you can help.
I am putting together a bibliography for a book manuscript made of several chapters. The chapters and the bibliography need to be submitted to the press as separate files so I need to save all the bibliographic citations from the in-texts from 7 chapters in a separate file. I couldn't find any information on how to do this, so I merged a copy of all the chapters to generate a bibliography, but found that all the citations in the endnotes did not show up in the bibliography. I copied the bibliography into a new file and then I drag and dropped the missing citations in by hand, but now, when I try to unlink the file from zotero so I can make small manual changes and not have anything else update, it says there are no citations to unlink (because of course these are in a separate file). If I go back to that file, I'll lose all the citations I just dropped in.
Any advice on what to do? It does not seem like generating a stand alone bibliography from multiple chapters should require this much work, since EVERY SINGLE PRESS demands this for book manuscripts.
I am using Word 15 with the plug-in.
Any advice is welcome. Thank you!
I am putting together a bibliography for a book manuscript made of several chapters. The chapters and the bibliography need to be submitted to the press as separate files so I need to save all the bibliographic citations from the in-texts from 7 chapters in a separate file. I couldn't find any information on how to do this, so I merged a copy of all the chapters to generate a bibliography, but found that all the citations in the endnotes did not show up in the bibliography. I copied the bibliography into a new file and then I drag and dropped the missing citations in by hand, but now, when I try to unlink the file from zotero so I can make small manual changes and not have anything else update, it says there are no citations to unlink (because of course these are in a separate file). If I go back to that file, I'll lose all the citations I just dropped in.
Any advice on what to do? It does not seem like generating a stand alone bibliography from multiple chapters should require this much work, since EVERY SINGLE PRESS demands this for book manuscripts.
I am using Word 15 with the plug-in.
Any advice is welcome. Thank you!
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(And please avoid all caps--it's generally regarded as yelling and is unpleasant to read--and it is not the case that a complete bibliography for a book is universally required.)
I managed to solve the problem by pasting the fixed bibliography back into the file, unlinking the citations, and then cutting and pasting it back into a new file. so in case anyone has the same problem - that's how to fix it.
But it still seems to me that something so routine shouldn't take several hours. And to clarify, its not that a bibliography is always required, but when a book has a bibliography (which is pretty standard for writing that uses citations), it is true that presses always require said bibliography to be submitted as a separate file, like all other chapters, so if some programmer would like to make an option of exporting the bibliography of multiple files into a separate file that would be awesome since word tends to get glitchy over 100 pages and having to merge 80,000 words and then generate a bibliography tends to make other problems (like not recognizing zotero citations in the endnotes.....).
The citation processor should certainly produce a complete bibliography for the consolidated document. We would be interested to know the cause of the omissions in your case, but without more detailed information and a bit of back-and-forth, it's hard to say what the cause might have been. That would take more of your time, and as the problem has been solved for the present, it would be understandable if you preferred to move on with your work.
One simple thing that you might do to investigate one step further would be to generate individual bibliographies in each of the chapter documents, and check to see if the cited items omitted from the consolidated bibliography are also omitted there. That information might provide a hint for future debugging, if this issue is reported again by someone else (yours is the first case, as far as I know).
As for an option to generate a consolidated bibliography from multiple documents, that would basically be replicating what happens when you produced the consolidated document and clicked Refresh -- the processor needs to receive all of the references in the overall work, in order to perform disambiguation (adding author names, year-suffixes, etc) as required by the style. If there is indeed a bug that affects the consolidated document, it would affect a one-click-to-consolidated-bibliography function as well, but after adding a layer of complexity.