Two questions from newbie
I am working on a long-ish essay for my PhD. Using Harvard Westminster, running Zotero 5 on Mac, Word 16.31. So far so good.
1. I manually entered a book chapter (of mine), which is published in 2019, the same year that another journal article (of mine) is published. In creating the citation using Zotero on Word, I notice the letters a and b are not automatically generated. Other cases within the same Word document (another author, two articles, published same year) written earlier automatically generated letters a and b after author name when using Zotero. Did I accidentally deny or agree on auto updating the whole document? How can i correct this?
2. In my listing on references on Zotero, there are two indications where there are duplicated documents. They are in fact not duplicate. In both cases, they are published in the same year and feature the same author, but are found in two different publications. Why does Zotero insist on considering the entries as duplicates? Interestingly, when generating citation, Zotero does differentiate the two essays (by the same author, published in the same year, in two publications) using a and b after the author name. Please explain.
Many thanks
1. I manually entered a book chapter (of mine), which is published in 2019, the same year that another journal article (of mine) is published. In creating the citation using Zotero on Word, I notice the letters a and b are not automatically generated. Other cases within the same Word document (another author, two articles, published same year) written earlier automatically generated letters a and b after author name when using Zotero. Did I accidentally deny or agree on auto updating the whole document? How can i correct this?
2. In my listing on references on Zotero, there are two indications where there are duplicated documents. They are in fact not duplicate. In both cases, they are published in the same year and feature the same author, but are found in two different publications. Why does Zotero insist on considering the entries as duplicates? Interestingly, when generating citation, Zotero does differentiate the two essays (by the same author, published in the same year, in two publications) using a and b after the author name. Please explain.
Many thanks
2. False duplicates are a common and known problem for Zotero. There has been some talk of adding an option to mark 'not duplicates' but that is difficult for technical reasons. If you search the forums you'll find various discussions about this. For now, the duplicates are just educated guesses, with different criteria for different item types, and there's nothing you can do about it. Personally I just ignore that function. (Or you might want to check through it all once before finalizing your dissertation, for example.)
2. Thanks for the explanation.