Removing reference from Bibliography
How do you remove a reference from a bibliography? I have a bibliography in text that has numbered references. When I delete the reference number it stays deleted, but the other references do not renumber and the reference is not removed from the Bibliography. Even when I remove the reference from the "Collection" it stays in the document's bibliography. This is frustrating.
Is there any way to revert? How can I reconcile this?
https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/word_field_codes
Please forgive me for sending a blunt email last night. I was traumatized by what I saw, but I did what the link you gave me suggested to do and now the field codes are hidden in my paper. A sigh of relief.....lol.
I have a stray reference in bibliography, and to remove it upon hitting "alt+FN+F9, do I delete the entire description of field codes (almost a page long) relating to that reference ? I'm sorry for stupid questions, but if I make a mistake what is going to happen?
The only time you need to show field codes is if there is an entry in your bibliography that shouldn’t be there, but you can’t find the citation in your document. That suggests there is a stray field code in document without visible text, such as if the citation was I completely deleted. This is rare and most commonly happens in LibreOffice or some older versions of Word for Mac.
In that case, showing the field codes can help you locate the hidden citation. You can show the codes, select the whole code that appears, including the opening and closing squiggly brackets, and delete it. Then hide the field codes again and click Refresh.
Yes, the second one was my case, "there is an entry in my bibliography that shouldn’t be there even after the citation was deleted and refreshed". I will try your instructions. Thank you, again!
juri