Citations in Word 2010 with standalone

joep_ruiter
Does anyone know the answer to a problem i've been having?

Using the standalone Zotero to insert citations into word 2010 lists multiple names before the "et al.". On a different pc, using the same style with the firefox plugin, the citation does work correctly.

Let me post an example:

I'm using the following article:
Weinhardt, C., Anandasivam, A., Blau, B., & Stosser, J. (2009). Business Models in the Service World. IT Professional, 11(2), 28-33.

Usint the FF plugin I get (Weinhardt et al., 2009) as a citation. Using the standalone version of Zotero I get (Weinhardt, Anandasivam, et al., 2009).

This all happens with the same style, using the following code under <citation>:

<option name="et-al-min" value="3"/>
<option name="et-al-use-first" value="1"/>
<option name="et-al-subsequent-min" value="1"/>
<option name="et-al-subsequent-use-first" value="1"/>
<option name="disambiguate-add-year-suffix" value="true"/>
<option name="disambiguate-add-names" value="true"/>
<option name="collapse" value="year"/>

Does anyone know how to fix this?
  • adamsmith
    I assume you're using Zotero 2.0.9 on that other computer? Its citation processor is different from the one used in the standalone - in this case, it's likely thrown off by the '-subsequent' section in your style, which doesn't make sense - the 'min' value always needs to be at least one larger than the 'use-first' value and it also needs to be larger than 1 - a value of one means that you add "et al" for one author, which doesn't make any sense.
    If you fix this things will likely work correctly.
  • Simon
    adamsmith is right re: the style, but I think that Frank fixed things so that this will work in the latest citeproc-js. Standalone is currently a couple versions behind the Zotero extension, but we'll release a new version of Standalone when Firefox 4 is released.
  • joep_ruiter
    Thnx for the replies :)

    Changed the "et-al-subsequent-min" to 3, but didn't have any luck. I'll wait for the upcoming version of the standalone.

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