Style's citations goes wrong for a citation

Metaljisawa
edited April 26, 2023
Hello,

I am currently writing a chapter for my thesis. And I have since had a style bug from what I can tell regarding a quote that also changes the previous quotes (from the same page). This multiple citation contains 3 books and 3 articles with page references. I have already quoted all of these books and articles earlier in the chapter and did not get this error. I write on Google docs, and ask for PUR (Presses Universitaire de Rennes) style.

I put the example of the style error below :

<i>Ibid.</i>, p. 83 ; <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Blancpain</span> Jean Pierre, <i>Le Chili et la France (XVIIIe-XXe siecles)</i>, <i>op. cit.</i>, p. 130; 132 ; <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Bunle</span> Henri, <i>Mouvements migratoires entre la France et l’etranger</i>, <i>op. cit.</i>, p. 34 ; <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Charles</span> Albert, « L’émigration basco-béarnaise sous la Monarchie de Juillet et le Second Empire », <i>op. cit.</i> ; <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Moya</span> José C., « L’Amérique ibérique dans l’histoire globale des migrations », <i>op. cit.</i>

Refreshing the page solved the error but adding a new quote brought the problem back. Some help would be welcome.
  • dstillman
    What are you saying the problem is? You need to say both what you're getting and what you expect.
  • Metaljisawa
    Sorry the website incorpored the style of citation. I'm sharing there what is hapenning in my document so. It should appear as my first post.

    https://imgur.com/8j2uR0p
  • adamsmith
    There's a similar issue reported here: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/86097/references-stuck-in-code

    I'd try to see if you can isolate a citation that triggers that using
    https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/debugging_broken_documents (most likely there's something weird in the metadata for that item)
  • Metaljisawa
    I was thinking that the Zotero model did not support multiple citations with books and articles at the same time. But after isolating the different sources, it seems that the problem is with the articles themselves. However, following this problematic citation, I am led to cite another work (which I have also cited before in the chapter without any problems) and now I find myself one out of three times with raw html integration.

    I've tried also in a new document, but it doesn't reproduce this error. I've also double checked the metadata on zotero from this both articles to check is something weird have been inserted by the zotero connector, but not as far as I checked.

    There is the debug output in case someone wants to check from this : D1110144193
  • dstillman
    If you make a copy of the document, does it still happen in the copy? If so, if you can share it, or cut it down to a small excerpt that still demonstrates the problem and share that, send a link to support@zotero.org with a link to this thread and we can take a look.
  • adomasven
    You likely have a quote " symbol in one of the URLs of your cited items. That's currently the only known reason that would cause this bug. You should fix those items in Zotero and replace the quote symbol with %22, which is the encoded representation of the quote, then refresh the document in Google Docs. Otherwise you will need to provide more liberal access to the document you sent to support@zotero.org so that we can take a look.
  • adomasven
    @Metaljisawa Can you confirm that you see this bug in the document that you have shared with us if you got into the Zotero menu and press Refresh? You may get a dialog about a modified citation, you choose "No" in it.
  • Metaljisawa
    edited April 27, 2023
    @adomasven I can confirm, after the refresh and select no, everything comes back to normal. Problem solved for the copy.
    But in the original writing if I try to reproduce the manipulation just with your instructions, it doesn't repair it tho. Do I need to modify something in my metadata or in the citation ?

    What could have made this error before exactly ? (Just want to understand and solve it myself next time)
  • adomasven
    You should make sure it fixes itself in your larger document too by refreshing. For what's causing it, as I described above, the only known reason would be a cited item URL that contains a quote " symbol.
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