Does anyone have any idea why my MHRA citations are suddenly appearing in Word as in-text rather than footnotes? It seems to be working as expected with existing documents, but not in new documents or existing docs with no previous references. I can't see anything in settings which would have affected this and have checked that I am in fact selecting MHRA rather than MLA in-text which is immediately underneath it in the list. I've been using Zotero for years, this has only recently started happening.
Are you sure you have selected "Modern Humanities Research Association 4th edition (notes)" in the document preferences (not in Zotero preferences)? I get footnotes in a new document in both Word and LibreOffice with MHRA 4 (notes), as expected.
When I open a doc, old or new, doc prefs set to American Chemical Society (the first on the list), which I assume is in-text, and something I have never used.
I can obviously change this to MHRA, but in the past am sure I used author/date, which now appears to be in-text - I must have missed this, and have always changed to Harvard where in-text was required.
When MHRA author–date was updated to the 4th edition earlier this year, it was mistakenly configured as a notes style, and this remained the case for a couple of months before it was fixed. If you were using MHRA author–date during that time, it will now have been switched from notes back to the in-text mechanism.
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When I open a doc, old or new, doc prefs set to American Chemical Society (the first on the list), which I assume is in-text, and something I have never used.
I can obviously change this to MHRA, but in the past am sure I used author/date, which now appears to be in-text - I must have missed this, and have always changed to Harvard where in-text was required.
So 'notes' is the way forward.
Thanks again