In-text Citation in MS word with MacOS Catalina

OliBC
Hello,

I am using a Mac with MacOS Catalina 10.15.5 and the lastest version of MS word 365 and Zotera.

I am trying to add an In-text citation, but it always generate a full reference.

Is it juste me or is there an issue.


  • adamsmith
    Could you run through exactly what you're doing, which citation style you're using, and how the reference loooks like?
  • OliBC
    I use the in-text citation button in MS word, choose the APA 7th edition. Then, I search the author in the red bar and press enter.

    What is generated is the long bibliographic citation with the journal and everything.
  • adamsmith
    That shouldn't be possible. Could you paste the full citation as you see it here? Does the same happen in a new document?
  • bwiernik
    And if you are seeing the full bibliography reference in text, double check that you haven’t selected the “curriculum vitae” version of the APA 7th edition style.
  • OliBC
    When I click on the Add/Edit Citation button

    (Meyer, W. B., & Turner, B. L. (1992). Human population growth and global land-usecover change. Annual review of ecology and systematics, 23(1), 39-61..pdf, s. d.)

    I don't see the curriculum vitae of the 7th ed.
  • adamsmith
    You're citing a file stored in Zotero, not the Zotero item holding the (meta)data
  • OliBC
    And how can I cite the Zotero item holding the metadata ?
  • adamsmith
    First, check out the screenshot on the Zotero homepage for how a library should normally look https://www.zotero.org/
    Note the expanded item "Circulation of Medicine..." -- that's a Zotero item with a PDF attached. That's how you your items should look in Zotero if you want to cite them.

    The citation add-on will not pick up attachments, so once you have things organized properly, you'll automatically cite the Zotero item.

    Not sure how you got that PDF into Zotero in the first place -- you can try using right-click --> Retrieve metadata on it, but good chance it won't work (Zotero tries this when you drag a PDF to Zotero), so your best bet is to import it from the publisher: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev.es.23.110192.000351 and then attach your PDF. Then delete the existing citation and re-cite.
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