Formatting lost in Google Doc

brynn.sundberg
Hello,

I have been working on a Google Doc for a few weeks which has reached around 100 citations. Yesterday, after adding in a new reference, the citations refreshed but without the correct formatting. There was no error message or anything else unusual.

The loss of formatting looks like this (for an in-text citation of references 1 and 2):

\super 1,2\nosupersub{}

And the bibliography:

{\rtf (1)\tab Reinkowski-H\uc0\u228{}fner, E. Tempera: Narratives on a Technical Term in Art and Conservation. In {\i{}Tempera painting 1800-1950: experiment and innovation from the Nazarene movement to abstract art}; Dietemann, P., Ed.; Archetype Publications: London, 2019; pp 21\uc0\u8211{}32.(2)\tab Reinkowski-H\uc0\u228{}fner, E. TEMPERA: ON THE HISTORY OF A TECHNICAL TERM. In {\i{}Painting in Tempera, c. 1900}.

Can anyone help me rescue my article?
  • adomasven Zotero Team
    How did you insert citations into Google Docs? Did you use the plugin or did you insert them by copying from Zotero and pasting? If the latter, you should make sure you have the correct format selected in Zotero Preferences -> Export.
  • lilaw
    I have the same problem I inserted the citations using hte plugin. Please help!
  • lauradm01
    I have the same problem using the Google Chrome plugin and Google Docs, were you able to solve it?
  • tribaric
    This happened to me as well. I'm writing my dissertation so it was dozens and dozens and dozens of citations that broke.

    I was able to fix it though!

    I went to the Zotero menu - Document Preferences at which point I changed it to MLA (I'm writing in APA). It reformatted everything as MLA (and more importantly rendered it correctly). Then I switched it again from MLA to APA. Looks like it should now.

    That was scary.
  • LNatali
    I signed in exclusively to thank you tribaric. I was writting my thesis and almost fainted when all my citations turned into gibberish. This absolutely worked!
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