urgent messed up citations

nubinciziri
Hey,
I have a deadline by Tuesday so this is an urgent matter.
I changed my referencing style from Chicago (note) to full note in my thesis template. I realised that this would make too long footnotes, so I switched to another reference style to see other options.

Suddenly, a chapter in my thesis is using endnotes, the rest has switched to in-text citations. I have changed the style to Chicago note again, and when I add new references, it works, but all my other ones (hundreds of them) appear in the text now. I have refreshed it so many times, the footnotes section as well as authomatically refreshing section is enabled when I click on Document Preferences and choose the citation style.

I hope I don't have to manually deal with this by adding references one by one again.

Best,
Nubin
  • adamsmith
    We might be able to troubleshoot this, but can't you just go back to an earlier version, which will be both more reliayand faster? Seems weird that you would have overwritten a previous save with a version that has all references messed up?
  • nubinciziri
    I can't because I tried several reference style to see which one I would prefer, and by the time I realised it messed up the template I was worried to lose my text so I saved eveything and then tried going to Document Preferences to make it Chicago again.
    This was two days ago, I have been working on the text yesterday as well as I have to make it to the deadline. So it is too late to go back to the earler version...
  • adamsmith
    For future reference, you can always undo unwanted changes introduced by Zotero and then save, make a copy, and do any troubleshooting on a copy of the document. Certainly having tried a whole bunch of things in the existing doc isn't going to make this simpler to fix.

    The first thing I'd try is to switch back to an author-date style and then to Chicago (note), making sure to select footnotes (endnotes are more error-prone for some reason).

    If that doesn't work, https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/debugging_broken_documents is your best bet.
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