Zotero is ignoring Word Bibliography style format
I am having the same problem this person had, except I have the latest os x, word 2016 and zotero. I have followed the zotero guide to update the Style, but Zotero ignores it whenever I refresh.
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/6148/zotero-overrides-styles-of-citations-in-word-always-times-new-roman/p1
which was:
'I'm using Zotero 1.5 Beta and the Word for Mac 2008 alpha plugin (I'm running the most recent versions of Leopard, Word, and Zotero; all just freshly installed). When I add citations, they do not take on the formatting style of the surrounding text. This is true in footnotes and bibliography. When I block the text and then change the style to match the surrounding text, that works only temporarily. As soon as I use Zotero's "refresh", it all reverts back to Time Roman. In the footnotes, this is even worse, because changing the style eliminates all italics.'
The final post from the thread is from two years ago and is a lengthy workaround. Has this been fixed to work without a workaround please?
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/6148/zotero-overrides-styles-of-citations-in-word-always-times-new-roman/p1
which was:
'I'm using Zotero 1.5 Beta and the Word for Mac 2008 alpha plugin (I'm running the most recent versions of Leopard, Word, and Zotero; all just freshly installed). When I add citations, they do not take on the formatting style of the surrounding text. This is true in footnotes and bibliography. When I block the text and then change the style to match the surrounding text, that works only temporarily. As soon as I use Zotero's "refresh", it all reverts back to Time Roman. In the footnotes, this is even worse, because changing the style eliminates all italics.'
The final post from the thread is from two years ago and is a lengthy workaround. Has this been fixed to work without a workaround please?
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/70109/word-16-9-1-add-bibliography-error#latest
As a workaround until the bug is fixed, you have two options:
1) Click Document Preferences in the Zotero tab and change "Store citations using" from Fields to Bookmarks. Bookmarks are more fragile than Fields and aren't generally recommended, but they will format correctly for the time.
2) Set the Bibliography style in Word how you want it (font, spacing, indents, etc.), then select all of the bibliography text and click that Style in the Word Styles pane.
I will probably just not touch it on Mac now :(
Solved it other way:
1.- Opened "Document Preferences" in the Zotero tab.
2.- Changed Language to "English (US)".
That did the trick.
Didn't change "Store citations using" from Fields to Bookmarks...
Any updates on this?
I encountered the same problem and the only way I found of avoiding it is to change the corresponding Word styles before introducing the citations and the bibliography.
Basically, when you start working on the document.
Hope this helps.