Zotero Microsoft Word Plug-in adding erroneous page numbers
I have been having this problem for quite a while now. I have mac OS 10.13 (old I know) and several of my citations have "p. 1" added to them even though that is not even the page number listed in the page field of the citation. I do not want the page number in my citations, so I do not know why they are there in the first place. What could be causing this?
When you click on edit citation with the cursor in the citation, then click on the blue/grey field with the citation, do you see "1" in the "Page" field of the citation details (see https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage#customizing_cites )
Also while I'm here, Zotero has issues with journal abbreviations. For some reason they are not automatically imported leaving me a headache of manually annotating hundreds of citations.
For journal abbreviations: you realize you don't need the field in Zotero populated? Zotero will just generate them automatically from the journal title as needed.
For journal abbrev, a lot of my citations are populated with the full journal name. Not sure why this happens either. Example, Publication = Current Opinion in Biotechnology, abbreviation = Current Opinion in Biotechnology. Maybe this is a journal website issue?
The Zotero item has a Pages field. That is only rarely used in citations (pretty much exclusively in footnotes/endnote) and only appears in the bibliography.
Every citation Zotero inserts into Word has an optional locator, which defaults to Page. What I'm asking you is if the 1 appears there when you look at it by clicking on the citation -- and I think you're saying that it does.
The most likely reason this would happen is that Zotero will interpret some things that you type in the red citation bar as page numbers. So if you type, e.g., "Smith" and then select and then start typing the year but stop after the 1 because you already have an item selected, that could happen. I don't see another way this would occur.
If you can reproduce a problem with something not working correctly, you'd report that as a bug. It sounds like this was just your being unaware of a feature of the citation dialog.