Footnote numbering in a document with several chapters

Jane R
I am writing a dissertation with 6 chapters which are currently each in a separate document. That will be OK for printing the final document, but I also have to submit it as an electronic document. I found that when I put all the chapters together to make one electronic document, Zotero 'helpfully' combined all the footnote numbering, so that instead of the first footnote in each chapter being 1, I get a continuous run of numbers from the first to the last footnote. I want the footnote numbering to re-start at 1 at the beginning of each chapter, even when they are all in one document.
Is there any way I can get the format I want when I put all the chapters together?
  • adamsmith
    That's actually your word processor and not Zotero doing that. Zotero just tells the word processor "insert footnote with X content here" and Word/Ooo do the rest.

    Most word processors allow you to re-start footnotes at 1 - e.g. after a section break - the specifics depend on your software.
    Alternatively you can first create pdfs and then join the chapters together - that gets rid of the footnote problem, but won't work for continuous page numbers if you want those. There are a number of free tools - I believe even some online - that will allow you to do that.

    Hope that helps.
  • Jane R
    Thanks. I'll see if I can do battle with Word!

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