A CSL citation field became corrupted

tacitojr
A CSL citation field became corrupted. The visible citation contains only Helms et al. (2020), Stone et al. (2021), and Washif et al. (2025), but the underlying citationItems still include Forbes et al. (2022), causing the bibliography to retain an unused reference. Removing Forbes through the citation editor does not persist after Refresh. Is this a known CSL field corruption bug?
  • tacitojr
    The 'Selected Items' panel always shows the same reference (Forbes et al., 2022), even when opening newly created citations (e.g., Stone et al., 2022 or Currier et al., 2026) in a brand-new Word document. However, the citation shown in the top citation bar is correct.
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    edited today at 3:08pm
    We'd have to see a document excerpt to say for sure, but it just sounds like you made a manual edit to the visible citation. Zotero would've asked you whether you wanted to keep changes or revert them and let it update. Customize the citation via Add/Edit Citation should prompt to revert changes. If that's not happening, we'd want to debug that, but you can also just delete and recreate the citation.

    (If you edited to use narrative citations, use Omit Author instead.)
    The 'Selected Items' panel always shows the same reference (Forbes et al., 2022), even when opening newly created citations
    That's just the item you have selected in Zotero.
  • tacitojr
    Hi David,
    Thank you for your reply.
    As requested, I have attached a small document excerpt ("Test BUG") containing the first pages of the manuscript and the bibliography where the unexpected Forbes et al. (2022) entry still appears.
    Please let me know if you need any additional information or a different excerpt.
    Thank you very much for your help.
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    You can email a file to support@zotero.org with a link to this thread.
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