error: citation/ bibliography is wrongly placed in index area, please delete the placed citation/ bi

mozaki · January 11, 2019

This issue occurs with MS Office 365 and zotero plugin.
Steps are:
1: Open new plain word file on Office365.
2: Click Zotero tab
3: Click "Document Preference", select "Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute", hit "OK" to close Zotero - Document Preference dialog box.
4: Click "Add/Edit Citation" and choose any existing reference.
5: Save and close this document.
6: Reopen this document.
Against the expectation, the document shows the error message, "error: citation/ bibliography is wrongly placed in index area, please delete the placed citation/ bibliography in index area".
Does anyone has a good solution?

This might be related to the issue on Mendeley addressed in https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/error-citation-bibliography-is-wrongly-placed-in/92d68bd0-d905-4b69-9de7-f2350c8e176f

dstillman · January 11, 2019

That's not an error from Zotero.

Rintze · January 31, 2019

I've also started seeing this error recently with Word 2013 and pre-existing Word documents containing Zotero citations.

Screenshot
https://pasteboard.co/HZ15p0s.png

Rintze · January 31, 2019

More reports of this error here, mostly with Mendeley (which I have installed alongside their Word plugin):

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/error-pop-up-on-ms-word-citation-inserted/052d880e-34c8-4b52-825d-55d73439178a?page=1

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_does_Mendeley_not_create_citations_in_Word

Seems to have popped up in the past few weeks.

mozaki · February 1, 2019

In my case, I installed Mendeley 1.19.3 in addition to Zotero.
By uninstalling the above version and install 1.19.1 (https://www.mendeley.com/autoupdates/installers/1.19.1), the error does not occur.

dstillman · February 1, 2019

Yeah, to be clear, this error message (which is full of typographical and grammatical errors) isn't from Zotero.

abraxe · April 3, 2019

I started to get this message a few weeks ago and after reading here i uninstalled Mendeley and the error message disappeared.

Malachi_GH · April 12, 2019

This a problem I have found using endnote, mendeley and zotero - the common variable is Word so that must be the culprit! Anyway THE WORKING SOLUTION is described below and has worked for me several times.

Taken from advice in link below.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/error-citation-bibliography-is-wrongly-placed-in/92d68bd0-d905-4b69-9de7-f2350c8e176f

The instructions are:

"... turned on field code by pressing alt+F9. I found this bit of code: "{ ADDIN }" appended to the end of the field code for my embedded graph. Once I deleted that item the document became functional again. I just replicated the same fix in a backup version of the file I had made, it really is just that piece of code.

It looks like there are other pieces of code containing "ADDIN", based on a ctl+f search, one for each of my citations. But this { ADDIN } was the only one that was sitting alone, with nothing else in its curly braces.

So here are the steps:

1) Hit ALT+F9

2) Search for ADDIN (I didn't get a result for { ADDIN, only the letters themselves worked)

3) Delete the search result that is { ADDIN } alone

4) Try to refresh your bibliography to see if it's fixed!"

oscar gonzalo · April 30, 2019

Buenas noches viendo este error al principio supuse que era se zotero, pero no era porque tenia instalado a la vez mendeley, pero si afecta para la actualización en zotero, desintale el mendeley y se soluciono el problema.

dstillman · April 30, 2019

Yes, once again, this is an error from Mendeley, not from Zotero.