In text citations not matching bibliography

elisabethtyler
Hello,

I am having an issue with the in-text citations number not matching the number for the reference in the bibliography. In the bibliography, the reference is # 16 (which is correct in terms of the number of references) but then in the text the citation shows up as 1. No other citations/references have this issue and there is another reference being correctly cited as 1.
  • bwiernik
    You likely have automatic updating of citations disabled (you may have seen a popup asking to disable it after Zotero took a long time to do an update). This is often the case if your document has many citations in it.

    Try clicking the Refresh button in the Zotero tab to update all of the citations. You can also re-enable automatic updates from the Document Preferences window.
  • elisabethtyler
    Hi Bwiernik,

    Thank you for your response! After trying this, it seems that the issue is persisting. Is there anything else that I can try? I would like to avoid redoing all the citations altogether but I am wondering if that is my only option.
  • damnation
    Just to check, if you switch to something like APA all your citations change citation style? This means they are active still, which is a good thing.

    What happens when you then switch back to your numeric style?
  • elisabethtyler
    I just tried that and it seems to have unlinked all of my citations, even in the original document. It also added the 6 missing citations in the beginning of the document but not to the actual bibliography. So now there are two sets of 1-6 references that don't match.
  • damnation
    That's what I thought. In that case, please read through this to identify and avoid what has flattened your citations:
    https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/existing_citations_not_detected
  • elisabethtyler
    Okay thank you!
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