Duplication of reference list with Zotero
Hey :)
We are two students currently writing on our Master thesis in a Google docs document.
Sometimes Zotero duplicated the reference list plenty of times; we ended up having around 120 pages due to that. So at the moment we have to do the references manually.
Our guess is that it happened when Zotero hanged itself and started to load forever and we tried to reload the (Google docs) page as it was the only option we had to access the document again.
We would be happy about any suggestion!
Best wishes :)
We are two students currently writing on our Master thesis in a Google docs document.
Sometimes Zotero duplicated the reference list plenty of times; we ended up having around 120 pages due to that. So at the moment we have to do the references manually.
Our guess is that it happened when Zotero hanged itself and started to load forever and we tried to reload the (Google docs) page as it was the only option we had to access the document again.
We would be happy about any suggestion!
Best wishes :)
If you're able to reproduce this problem in a copy of the document or a document excerpt you don't mind sharing, could you share it with support@zotero.org with a link to this thread?
Seperately, I needed to do that because Zotero did not include in the bibliography it built many of the citations from my document! Altogether, I am very disappointed in Zotero from these interlinked experiences today. In the few months I have used Zotero, I have found it to largely be a good product and I prefer that a non-profit produces it, but I need a reference manager to include all referenced citations in a bibliography and to not repeatedly make erroneous duplications of the bibliography. thank you.
We've had a couple reports of citations becoming unlinked in Google Docs when cutting/copying citations, and we've fixed a possible cause of that for the next version. But if you're not seeing a citation in the bibliography, you should delete and reinsert it so that it becomes active again, and then it will appear in the bibliography. And you should delete your existing bibliography, which at this point has manual modifications that shouldn't be necessary.
But with the missing citations, they were so numerous - I find it unlikely that all of them became unlinked.