Quotation marks

masumi
Hi, I'm using Microsoft Japanese version and writing papers in English.
When I quote and cite magazine articles using MLA style, it appears like this:(Mark, “Accounting for Taste” 339). My problem is the quotation marks in the citation are Japanese quotation marks. I have manually changed them into English quotations and saved but when I reopen the file, Japanese quotation marks appear again. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Thanks in advance.
  • adamsmith
    you should be able to switch the quotation mark setting in word. Where I don't know and it probably depends on your Word version, too.
  • masumi
    Thank you very much for your super quick answer! I seek that possibility too but all other quotation marks in my files are fine except ones come from the zotero citations. Do you still think it is because of my word setting?
  • adamsmith
    So just to get that right - all other quotation marks are regular, English " " - but the once inf Zotero are kagis?
    That's curious. Have you tried switching the locale of Zotero?
    http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/bibliographies_in_different_languages
  • masumi
    Yes!!
    So you are suggesting me to click the"Add to Firefox" button on the following site, right?
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/14442/
  • dstillman
    Where did adamsmith ever suggest that? You can install that if you want, but it was not made by Zotero and we can't vouch for it. The link adamsmith provided above tells you how to change the setting manually.
  • masumi
    Thank you very much for your time. I'll try to go over the link again....
  • masumi
    Thanks to your help, I could "switch the locale of Zotero" to "en-US" but interestingly my quotations changed into "new quotations" neither Japanese nor English.... how strange! I'm not sure if it is shown but like this: "...in Japanese society as a whole”(Mack, “Accounting for Taste” 339)"
  • masumi
    Sorry for the confusion, but I found out that after switching to "en-US", in the following citation (Mack, “Accounting for Taste” 339), the quotation parts are still MS Mincho (Japanese font) and other parts are all Times New Roman. And I cannot change MS Mincho into Times New Roman (I could change by the cut and past way but when I reopened the file, MS Mincho showed up again) .. Well, in any case, thank you very much for your time.
  • adamsmith
    ah ok - it's a different font.
    Try this, then:
    http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/word_default_font

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