This is very much not a general issue with APA (or any other citation style) and Zotero-generated citations in Word.

in HTML that just means "&", but why is my MS Word writing it out literally?

The only thing I'm seeing is tracked changes in an endnote which is one of the known causes of this in Word. As I said, Zotero has nothing to do with note numbering and this is widely reported indepen

5. I tried this in Word, and got very similar results: null paste for quick copy. After I added a footnote for an item with no URL, it did at least not error out with the bibliography, but also still

Zotero 9.0.5. In the Word plugin, when bringing up the citation dialog, there's no way to tab to the checkmark button.

You'll need to export the library as Zotero RDF with files and import into the other library. (Note that this will break links to citations in existing word processor documents and reset Date Added/Mo

If it works in a new document, see Troubleshooting Errors in Word Processor Documents for the existing document.

My idea was to assign tags to my sources using two broad categories, then select one category at a time and use "Create Bibliography from Items" before pasting the result into Word—once for print sour

I'm currently using APA 7th edition style and Zotero 9.0.4 with the Word plugin (in a Mac).

Abbreviate journal names according to the List of Title Word Abbreviations (LTWA).

Zotero 7.0.32 with Microsoft Word 365 Version 2605 on Windows. Clicking Add/Edit Citation opens the citation picker normally, but after selecting a reference and confirming, Word displays a Convert Fi

I've chosen Chicago Manual of Style 18 author-date citation style for the whole document. I have the MS word connector. However, some citations are appearing wrong in the word doc despite all metadata

the plugin connector in WPS Words can connect to zotero when klik add in

Again, you can test in a new document saved to your desktop. But you're going to have to believe us when we say that a regular .docx save doesn't flatten Word fields and figure out why this is happeni

out on your own. Again, Zotero creates standard Word fields (the same as, say, inserting an auto-updating date field in your document via Word), which obviously would survive a standard .docx save.

I only use Word and everything saves automatically on OneDrive by word.

It means something about how you're saving the file is flattening the document. This would never happen if you just saved a document as a .docx. Zotero creates standard Word fields.

Windows 11, Zotero 7.0.32 (64-bit), Office 2016. The Word plugin is installed (Zotero.dotm is loaded), but when I click Add/Edit Citation I get "Word could not communicate with Zotero". The problem st

I work on the document, everything looks fine. I save on cloud and close Word. Later I reopen the same document. As soon as I insert one new citation anywhere in the document, Zotero seems to rebuild

Zotero has clear instructions on moving live citations between word processors. But I have not heard of the apparent issue you describe with web Onedrive.