MHRA citations are suddenly appearing in Word as in-text rather than footnotes

dstillman Zotero Team
This discussion was created from comments split from: New implementation of the MHRA Style Guide, 4th edition.
  • siobhan.hayes
    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.
  • poettli
    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.
  • siobhan.hayes
    Thanks, problem solved.

    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


  • dunning
    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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