Problems with updating citations

petros32
Report ID 123994779: I have a large Word document (550 pages), that I've created in sections, using Zotero for citations and bibliographies that I've added after each section. I pasted all the sections together to aid final editing. I had problems adding new citations via the quick citation dialogue box. It turned entirely red and eventually told me that it was taking a long time to update citations. After a while the new citation did appear but not always. I think I cured that by unlinking all the old citations. I can now add a new citation but a dotted line appears underneath the citation in the text. I wonder whether you could suggest a better way of handling such a long piece of work. Zotero has previously been a great aid in writing whatever I've published before. I've never published anything of book length before.
  • petros32
    The new citations with dotted underlining don't appear to add themselves to any of the bibliography sections (or create a new bibliography).
  • petros32
    The last comment isn't true, but it takes a long time to create a new bibliographical section. Document just too big?
  • adamsmith
    If you work in a long document, then the recommendation would indeed be to work without a bibliography if possible and to have automatic updating of references turned off (that produces the underlining until they are updated). You can then use refresh to update all references.
  • petros32
    Thank you very much. That's helpful
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