Bug report: Anomalous Character in Automatic Google Docs Citations

Report ID: 1290833249

When using the automatic citation feature in Google Docs, the extension is inserting an "F" at the beginning of of my footnotes. It does so before any citation has even been selected.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Create a google document.
2) Use the Zotero tab to attempt to add a citation.
3) Select "Chicago Manuel of Style 18th edition (notes and bibliography)
4) Once the window is up to select a citation, look at the bottom of the screen. You will see that the created footnote has an F in front of it.

I have attached a picture of this happening after the exact procedure outlined above. Note that I have blurred my citations for privacy reasons, but the F shows up before I have actually selected anything to cite, which means it is independent of my citations.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u6923776/pr52al7pk5aj9step7jb.png
  • Simply adding a comment to say that I am also experiencing this exact same problem.
  • I'm also having this issue, and further, my footnotes are being corrupted more generally (it's adding multiple citations following different formats when I add a citation).
  • adomasven Zotero Team
    @jrmacd2 @James.Barnes would you submit a Report ID from Zotero Connector?
  • Good afternoon. I have isolated my issue to Zotero Connector (I do not experience this issue with Microsoft Word, only with Google Docs in Chrome).
    Error report ID: 1209214753
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    This would be due to some change in Google Docs, but we'll likely need to wait until they've rolled it out to more people before we can reproduce it ourselves and fix it.
  • @jrmacd2 @James.Barnes Are you still seeing this? Does it happen if you disable all other extensions except for Zotero Connector and restart your browser? Alternatively, you can create a new browser profile with no extensions, only install Zotero Connector, and try there. Does it happen with other browsers?
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