Citation font doesn't change when updating Word formatting

dannilamb
Hi,

I'm reposting this as I didn't get any responses to my query last week, and the issue hasn't resolved.

I've just changed the formatting of all 'Normal' and 'Bibliography' text in a document from using Calibri to Times New Roman font, but my (Zotero inserted) citations haven't changed, despite being formatted as 'Normal' text. The bibliography is the same, stayed as Calibri, despite being 'Bibliography' text which should also have updated to Times New Roman.

I can't see an obvious way to fix this in Preferences>Cite>Style Editor, or anywhere else, and although I am able to manually change the font I'm guessing there is a way to do this for the whole document in one go.

Any ideas? I have the most recent updates for Word and Zotero (I just got a new laptop so reinstalled everything yesterday).

Many thanks to anyone who can help.

Danni
  • bwiernik
    In-text citations are formatted using the formatting style of the paragraph they are in, not Bibliography
  • dannilamb
    edited January 13, 2021
    That's what I thought, but in this case the formatting style of the paragraph (Normal) is Times New Roman, and yet the citations have remained Calibri.

    The same has happened in the Bibiliography - its formatting style (Bibliography) is Times New Roman, but the reference list has remained Calibri.

    All Zotero-inserted text in the document is failing to update to the new formatting styles.
  • dstillman
    edited January 14, 2021
    (Please don't create duplicate threads, even if you don't get a response: "This also applies if you have an existing thread on an issue: don't create a new one for the same problem, even if you've been waiting for a response. If you have additional related comments, just post them to the same thread.")

    Zotero doesn't assign a font. This is entirely controlled by Word styles and style overrides. There's literally nothing in Zotero that affects this, other than setting the bibliography to the "Bibliography" style. So this is entirely a Word issue.
  • bwiernik
    Try to select the whole paragraph and type Ctrl+Shift+Z to reset all formatting to the paragraph style.
  • dannilamb
    Apologies for the duplicate thread - I wasn't aware of what to do. I'll know for next time.

    Thanks, bwiernik - I was hoping there would be some setting that I had overlooked, which would mean Word recognised the Zotero references as text that should be formatted in the same way as everything else, but sounds like I'll have to do it manually after all.
  • dstillman
    edited January 15, 2021
    To be clear, this does work by default — the whole point of Zotero assigning the Normal and Bibliography styles is that you don't need to do anything different for the Zotero-inserted text. I'm not sure what in your Word settings would cause that to be different. You can test it in a new document.
  • bwiernik
    edited January 16, 2021
    @dannilamb My suggestion was that you might have applied manual formatting to the paragraphs at some point, rather using the default style formatting. If that’s the case, selecting the text (even the whole document at once) and then typing Control + Shift + Z would revert all of the manual formatting to the base style formatting.
  • oyviskog
    I'm also having problems with this issue. It doesn't always happen, but frequently. The strange thing is that even if you "unlink citations" – the font for the in-line references will not change if you use styles, themes or "Fonts" (as in where you select a "package" of fonts under "Design"). The only way to change it is by manually selecting the text and change the font from there. In essence, using styles can't be relied on when using Word (365) and Zotero combined.

    This is strange and it seems that some Zotero "code" still is left even in the unlinked citations (although I wouldn't put it past Word to somehow be responsible for this).
  • fentonh
    edited June 26, 2022
    erase
  • jod999
    Thank you, all. It is helpful to know that others are having this issue, and that there isn't a simple fix. I've just gone through my PhD thesis and fixed this problem manually.

    For the record, here are the version numbers of software / system I am using:
    * Zotero 5.0.96.2.
    * Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 MSO (Version 2305 Build 16.0.16501.20074) 32-bit
    * Microsoft Windows version 21H2 (OS build 19044.3086).
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