Zotero Unlinking in Word with New Document

Hello,

In Zotero, my citations are unlinked to my bibliography every time I make a new draft. To keep a previous draft of my papers I make a copy of the document and then start a new draft on the copy when doing that it unlinks my previous Zotero citations but keeps the new ones made on the document. As a result, my bibliography doesn't have all of my references. How do re link all of my citations to the bibliography? How do I keep the link when I make a new draft?
  • See Existing Citations Not Detected. You're likely saving the file in the wrong format.

    How exactly are you making a new draft?
  • I have my Word sync to OneDrive. So I make a new copy in one drive and then change the name.
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    edited October 27, 2022
    It's possible that copying the file in OneDrive flattens it, if it gets processed through Word Online, which doesn't work with Zotero.

    When this happens locally, it's usually from saving as .doc instead of .docx.

    One way or another, it sounds like you're saving the file in a way that's flattening the citations, so you'll need to stop that.
  • Your right it is saving as docx, thanks! Is there a way I can relink it?
  • No, .docx is correct. It's .doc that's incorrect.

    Once a document has been flattened, your only option is to reinsert the citations or restore from a backup of the file.
  • Ohhh it is saving as docx. I probably just need to stop making copies in one drive ok thank you
  • If I have the old citations and the new citations how do I get them all into the zotero library without copy and paste?

    If I do add/edit bibliography with the only the new citations in place am I going to have to reenter each citation?
  • I'm not sure what you mean there. Everything would still be in your Zotero library. But if you flattened the file, you would have to reinsert the flattened citations in the document so that they're active citations.
  • Ok Thank you so much!
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