how did you insert the Chicago Style citations? If you inserted the footnotes by Word (i.e. insert footnote) and then cited using Chicago style there isn't much you can do.
If you inserted the citation in the text, letting Zotero create the footnote that should convert correctly.

weird - just to be safe - did you try a different author-date style? APA or Chicago author-date?
I can't find a style "Harvard IEEE" in the repository - is that a custom style? If so the problem might be the style.

Yeah - that should work. You did try with a different style, though? Which Zotero version is this? Did you use Fields or Bookmarks in Word? (see Document Preferences).
But beyond that I don't know - maybe Dan or Simon would be willing to troubleshoot your document.

I used Fields in Word and am using Zotero 2.0rc5 with MacWord Integration 3.0a8 (although I also had this problem before the most recent updates). Any idea how I could ask Dan or Simon to take a look? Thanks so much for your help!

Thanks. I have sent the document to the support address. I really appreciate your help.

Thanks. Cutting and pasting as you suggest does not work for me -- I still get footnotes.

I also tried changing all citations back to Chicago footnotes, then to Harvard in-text. I did get an error, both when I changed it back to Chicago footnotes and back again to Harvard in-text. Moreover, when I changed it back to in-text, all of the citations were gone and in their place were notations such as this: 1/22/10 1:13 PM. The error message when I changed it back to Harvard in-text was:

Zotero experienced an error updating your document.
AttributeError: 'Keyword' object has no attribute 'startswith'

Hello,

I am having a similar problem. I am using Zotero 3.0.1 with Mac integration (though I'm not sure of what version of that) with Word for Mac 2008. My document is in Chicago style with footnotes (full note) and I would like to change my citations to Chicago style (author-date) in-text. However, when I convert them they change from the footnote style: 1. B. Brubaker, “In Haiti: the art of resilience,” Smithsonian, September 2010, 42–49.

to 1.(Brubaker 2010, 48), but it is still in the footnote and actually not "in-text" and the superscripted footnote numbers are still in the document as well. I tried changing it with different styles and changing it back and forth as you suggested above, but nothing seems to work. Any help you can give me would be much appreciated. Thank you.

start by updating Zotero. What happens if you try to convert to another format? And you're using footnotes, not endnotes, yes?

Have now updated to zotero version 4.0.29.15 and the problem persists.

I don't believe that the RTF Scan feature or the ODF Scan plugin can handle citations inserted in footnotes. That isn't the intended workflow. The citation placeholders must be inserted in-text. If you want a footnote style, then choose one (e.g., Chicago (note) ) after running the ODF scan.

Hi,
I encounter the same problem. I am using windows 10, office 2013, and zotero 5.0.17.

I tried it with chicago manual styles.

First, I added full note citations. As long as you do not close ALL office programs, converting works fine.

However, if you close ALL office programs, and re-open the documents, converting from full note to author-date do not run properly. As said above, zotero converts full notes to author-date citations, but in footnotes.

The result seems like:

citation1
citation2

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1 (Aquinas 1960, 15)
2 (Clerk 2005)

I am not sure the problems comes from zotero or office. I may run take the risk to re-install the office.

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edit: Close the office documents, while the citation is full note.

File format is docx if you mean it.

I have made some more attempts.

Firstly, I opened a new office documents. I set "Chicago manual of style (full note) as style. I added two case citations using Zotero. I converted it to different styles. It works fine.
Then I closed, opened, closed and opened the documents. Conversion is always successful.

Then, I opened the second office document. Now, there are two open docs. One is only two footnotes while the other has much more. And this second document was using another style, and could not convert full note to the author-date style.

Then I closed all of them, and I re-opened the first document. It only used Cms full note, and never used lesser known styles. However, this time it could not convert the document properly.

So, it seems to me that the problem is with the these lesser known styles. These styles corrupt both the document that used it, and the documents that is open at the same time.

Another explanation may be this.

Zotero does not change the layout and paragraph settings of the footnotes. When someone wants their footnotes to be hanged, and adds tabs after footnote numbers, this may cause the above mentioned conversion problem.
As long as inserted tabs stays footnotes, it seems impossible the full note footnotes to author-date citations.

Hi. I am having the same problem with Zotero: I was using a Chicago footnotes style. I tried changing it to MLA and APA and the parenthetical citations appear on footnotes. Has anyone found a solution to this problem?

Thanks.

I am using footnotes. I tried switching it to endnotes, then footnotes and finally to MLA (or APA), but it didn't work... Can this problem have anything to do with the fact that I am using the 16th edition of the Chicago Style?