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I have a relatively large google document (68,000 words, 150 citations)
When I try to add a citation to my document, one of two things happens.
1. It is selects the citation, but then, the cursor moves to the beginning of the document and the Find/Replace function starts looks for ".". I've tried to let this run its course once. It ran for several hours (and it only proceeds if the window is active). It does not add the citation.
2. It does not respond to any of the items in the zotero dropdown menu, other than to report the following error in my console.
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These may be two separate problems. But they usually occur one after the other, and they have the same effect of not allowing me to add or modify any citation.
Thank you for your attention.
I have a relatively large google document (68,000 words, 150 citations)
When I try to add a citation to my document, one of two things happens.
1. It is selects the citation, but then, the cursor moves to the beginning of the document and the Find/Replace function starts looks for ".". I've tried to let this run its course once. It ran for several hours (and it only proceeds if the window is active). It does not add the citation.
2. It does not respond to any of the items in the zotero dropdown menu, other than to report the following error in my console.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u476024/udbnmy1ueplwwbl3pq0m.png
These may be two separate problems. But they usually occur one after the other, and they have the same effect of not allowing me to add or modify any citation.
Thank you for your attention.
Since this morning, none of the options in this dropdown menu (please see attached picture) are responsive. I'm not able to work out why this is the case. I have used this google document for this project since the beginning and zotero has worked well for citations.
I have submitted the debug output log: D164874400
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Update: I restarted my local zotero installation and refreshed the google document, and this problem went away. I'm not sure why it occured. Updating citations has become progressively slower as the size of the document has increased.
If I cite an article from a web publication which is written by "stafff", or which does not have a named byline (like many articles in The Economist magazine are), it seems to give me trouble if I categorize it as a "Magazine Article" rather than as a "Web Page". This seems to be what causes that "." problem.
See “FTP Takeaways: Bangladesh the Busiest, Fewer ODIs for India, and T20 Windows Aplenty,” ESPNcricinfo, August 18, 2022, https://bit.ly/icc_ftp_2023-27. One further sentence in the footnote.
This is the version of the footnote which finally worked:
See “FTP Takeaways,” ESPNcricinfo, August 18, 2022, https://bit.ly/icc_ftp_2023-27.
I'm not quite sure why.
When the article is listed as written by staff, zotero leaves the author field blank.
I've used zotero for a long time, mostly for academic work. It works well for academic citations. In this particular project, a lot of the citations are from popular magazines archives (web based and print), video archives, podcast archives, news reports, weblogs.
Thank you.