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• Thank you. I think I really confused myself with reading about collections after not being able to change the citation style initially.

  in Multiple collections with different styles Comment by tomcho February 26, 2020
• @bwiernik Thanks so much. I had already restarted Word before making my post and just did this multiple times (as well as restarting Zotero). I was still being taken to my Zotero library but after trying a few times, I noticed that Word was hanging,…

  in Multiple collections with different styles Comment by tomcho February 26, 2020
• OK. Thanks for letting me know.

  in Zotero is very slow in adding or editing citations Comment by tomcho February 20, 2019
• Thanks. I probably do have over 200 citations. I had already disabled automatic citation updates and I don't think it made much or any difference. I will try inserting citations in a separate document and pasting them in. I didn't think of that. Tha…

  in Zotero is very slow in adding or editing citations Comment by tomcho February 20, 2019
• Thanks for the fast response. My document is 332 double-spaced pages or almost 90,000 words (it's in the process of being shortened) and 832 KB. I don't know how to tell how many citations I have.

  in Zotero is very slow in adding or editing citations Comment by tomcho February 19, 2019
• Thanks. I figured it wouldn't be possible. At any rate, it's ok. I just found in the Chicago Manual of Style: "When the title page carries such phrases as 'Edited with an Introduction and Notes by' or 'Translated with a Foreword by,' the bibliograph…

  in How to render "translated with an introduction by"? Comment by tomcho April 7, 2017
• Great. Thanks very much!

  in Italicizing suffixes (so that italicized newspaper titles can be included in citations) Comment by tomcho April 3, 2017
• I didn't realise I wasn't supposed to suppress the author on the second source citation. I've unchecked this box now. Thanks again.

  in Multiple works by same author Comment by tomcho March 28, 2017
• Thanks very much, @adamsmith! It's working now. "We can't, unfortunately, handle the page numbers for collapsed citations correctly, though." So far, I haven't had need for this. Fingers-crossed I won't in the future... PS What do you mean by "I…

  in Multiple works by same author Comment by tomcho March 28, 2017
• @LiborA Where is the repository that you refer to? I just looked at the Chicago style manual online (I'm a subscriber) and it says: 15.29 Multiple text references Two or more references in a single parenthetical citation are separated by semicolo…

  in Multiple works by same author Comment by tomcho March 28, 2017
• @bwiernik Ah, I see. The text needed to say something akin to "(through, as Smith [1993] argues, the staging of traditional rituals)". So I just typed "through, as Smith [" in the prefix field and "] argues, the staging of traditional rituals" in th…

  in Change round brackets to square brackets Comment by tomcho March 26, 2017