Zotero bibliography does not appear in word document
When I add a bibliography from the Zotero plugin, only {Bibliography} appears but no references. When I click on edit bibliography though, I can see the references selected?
How to see the complete bibliography in my document?
(Both Zotero and Word and the plugins have been updated to the latest versions...)
Thanks
How to see the complete bibliography in my document?
(Both Zotero and Word and the plugins have been updated to the latest versions...)
Thanks
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I didn't have any citation, so I inserted one and Word told me the link for the bibliography was corrupted and had to change the field code. The bibliography did appear after that! But if I delete the citation though, and edit the bibliography, it is gone again. At least I can work with it like this, thanks adomasven!
To encourage others daunted by the prospect of producing a big bibliography, I can report as follows. (This was done before I saw your reply.)
I worked on 3-year old desktop with an i3 Intel Core 4150 processor (3,5GHz) with a 3MB cache, a 1GB graphics card, 4 GB DDR3 memory, 500 GB hard drive and 128 GB SSD, where my software resides. I'm not very knowledgeable but don't think this is a particularly powerful machine.
As a trial run I tried to produce a bibliography (about 950 items at this stage) for six chapters (130,000 words) of a monograph I'm working on. I made test copies of my chapters, deleted the chapter bibliographies, and then used the "insert text from file" function in Word to add the chapters one by one to Chapter 1. Having done this, I clicked on Zotero's "Refresh" button, thinking this might help speed up the process of disambiguating the references with same author/date and authors with same family names. (I'm using the Chicago author-date system.) Nothing seemed to happen. After about an hour I clicked on "Insert bibliography". Nothing happened. I waited for several hours but no bibliography appeared. This is when I first posted my query. I left the computer on overnight, but it went to sleep so this morning there was still nothing. Then I tried "Refresh" again (don't know whether this serves any purpose), waited half an hour, and then clicked on "Insert bibliography". This time, a 26,000 word bibliography appeared after about 10-15 minutes.
I don't know whether this was the result of my earlier attempt, or a response to my second attempt, but I'm mighty pleased with the result. Not only did it produce a consistently formatted bibliography, but it disambiguated the references as needed throughout the text -- a job which would take days of work if done manually. (Of course, I expect there will be some anomalies to sort out in the course of a thorough final check.)
I now feel confident that I'll be able to do the same with the final product, which will run to around 180,000 words.
Thanks and Kudos to the Zotero team. As we say in South Africa, Viva Zotero! Long live!
I realize that my bibliography will take some time, and I'm prepared to wait for it, but it would make life so much easier if there were a simple work-in-progress indicator to confirm, "yes, your bibliography is being created, please be patient". It doesn't have to be a sophisticated progress indicator. Then I can get on with other work while Zotero chugs away through my text. Please, and thanks!