Links between deleted Library items and document citations
Hello
I have been updating Library items that I entered by hand or imported from old citation programs (in the Stone Age before DOIs existed). For some duplicates, I have been merging the items, but for others I have been just right-clicking and deleting the old item. For example, sometimes the DOI doesn't pull in the page number range. Rather than making that item the master for a merge, I just wrote in the missing information and deleted the old item.
I realize now that I wasn't thinking that through - have I broken all of the links in previous Word documents between these deleted items and in-text citations? If yes, when I refresh my bibliography, will Zotero tell me that it hasn't found a matching Library item?
Thanks very much.
I have been updating Library items that I entered by hand or imported from old citation programs (in the Stone Age before DOIs existed). For some duplicates, I have been merging the items, but for others I have been just right-clicking and deleting the old item. For example, sometimes the DOI doesn't pull in the page number range. Rather than making that item the master for a merge, I just wrote in the missing information and deleted the old item.
I realize now that I wasn't thinking that through - have I broken all of the links in previous Word documents between these deleted items and in-text citations? If yes, when I refresh my bibliography, will Zotero tell me that it hasn't found a matching Library item?
Thanks very much.
To clarify my understanding of point 2: so the citations in the old Word documents will still produce their original item listing in the bibliography of *that* document?
I tested this in a blank document with fake duplicate Library items (caps in one item, lowercase in the other), and I thought that this was what was happening?
That would be fine, because of course the information in those old items still is correct - they just aren't fancy with a DOI! As I move text from the draft to the new Word document I can check the Library items and fix them if I need to.