editing a bibliography
Though this may be a dumb question, I haven't been able to find any information in faqs or forums. I am using zotero w/ Word, and I would like some general information about editing a bibliography. Here's what I've done:
1.) Composed my document, adding citations (MLA style) as I go.
2.) Hit the "create bibliography" button.
3.) Seen that the bibliography is not quite right. It's double-spaced, for example, and I want it to be single-spaced. It doesn't include a few references that I want to include. And some entries are not quite right.
SO: I hit the "edit bibliography" button, but then I'm stumped. It just gives me a list of all my references.
I tried to highlight a reference that I wanted to add to my document's bibliography, thinking that I could then hit the arrow button to add it to the bibliography, but nothing happened. I couldn't hit an arrow button.
I tried editing the bibliography right in the word document, but whenever I hit any zotero button, the bibliography refreshed to it's old (mistake-ridden) form--which is frustrating.
Can anyone point me to a basic, step-by-step, with web-shots if possible, instruction page on editing a bibliography in Word? This would be REALLY helpful.
Thanks in advance.
Sincerely,
Siobhan
1.) Composed my document, adding citations (MLA style) as I go.
2.) Hit the "create bibliography" button.
3.) Seen that the bibliography is not quite right. It's double-spaced, for example, and I want it to be single-spaced. It doesn't include a few references that I want to include. And some entries are not quite right.
SO: I hit the "edit bibliography" button, but then I'm stumped. It just gives me a list of all my references.
I tried to highlight a reference that I wanted to add to my document's bibliography, thinking that I could then hit the arrow button to add it to the bibliography, but nothing happened. I couldn't hit an arrow button.
I tried editing the bibliography right in the word document, but whenever I hit any zotero button, the bibliography refreshed to it's old (mistake-ridden) form--which is frustrating.
Can anyone point me to a basic, step-by-step, with web-shots if possible, instruction page on editing a bibliography in Word? This would be REALLY helpful.
Thanks in advance.
Sincerely,
Siobhan
If you select an item that's not in the bibliography, you should be able to click the green arrow pointing to the right and it will be added.
However - there is a) no way to see that it has b) no way to remove it later and c) no way to remove items of the bibliography at all.
I'm pretty sure all of this used to work correctly at some point?
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/14350/no-references-show-up-in-the-edit-bib-right-screen/#Item_1
So the devs have got a report and debug id. Hopefully Dan or one of the other devs will open a ticket, if one hasn't been opened already but I've no idea if this is an easy or hard fix (I'd hope the former given that this was working just fine not that long ago - but it's a bit odd that there haven't been more people reporting this bug).
[JavaScript Error: "items is not defined" {file: "chrome://zotero/content/integration/editBibliographyDialog.js" line: 159}]
that I was getting before zotero 2.0.7.r6781
and nothing showing up in the right hand panel
[edit] no probs. Will try tomorrow. Off to pub now!