Zotero doesn't set a font size — it just inserts references using the "Bibliography" formatting style in Word. To change the font size, you would need to edit that style.

Thank you for the replys. Unfortunately this doesn't solve the problem. When I click on a citation word tells me that this is the "standart" style which it isn't. And secondly when I add a word bibliography the font size of it is correct, but the Zotero citations are still off (at least most of them). And also there is no Bibliography style in my styles list, but as I said, the word generated bibliography has the right size.

Oh, sorry, you're talking about citations, not the bibliography. It's the bibliography that's inserted with the Bibliography style. Citations are just inserted with whatever style applies to the current cursor position. Again, Zotero doesn't set a font size at all, so you just need to make sure the document (not counting the bibliography) is using a consistent style.

Thanks for the help. The issue is that even if I put the cursor on the citation (and click on it) it tells me it would be the standart style. If I mark it and click on the standart style again it changes the font size . I just wasn't sure what caused the problem so I didn'tw ant to change it all manually but then I will just do it and hope it doesn't happen again.

Take the screenshot, upload it to Dropbox or imageupload.net (or one of those) and post the link.

Open the actual styles pane — don't just look at the selected style in the ribbon. There's likely a modification to the normal style applied to the body text that doesn't apply to the citation. (Note the parentheses after the font name in the body text.)

Can you Place the cursor somewhere else in your paragraph and show a screenshot of the Start Ribbon?

Hi I have a partially related issue, and was automatically directed to this discussion.

I can't control the font size which Zotero uses with the bibliography. I don't know anything about the code which is used to write the individual styles. But I nevertheless looked through the code for any commands which contain e.g. "size" "point" or "12" (Zotero is imposing on me a 12.5p font size). There is referral to the letter font, italic, bold, etc. But not size.

Of course I can just apply a style within the native word-processing program, but that's not the point. Every time that the biolography is updated....the word processor format must be re-applied.

My specs are: using a modern Mac, running Catalania 10.15,5, LibreOffice 6.4.4.2.

Thanks (again)

Hi!
Sorry, but I did all the above, and even modifying the "Bibliography" style, everytime the reference list is updated it comes back to Times New Roman 12.
Are there any other options w/o unlinking the references? Thanks a lot

I have the same issue in word on a PC. Changing the bibliography settings doesn't help.