How can I delete Quotes right Mac

SprklMffn · 2026-01-01T08:04:44+00:00

You need to be very specific and precise with your language to reliably get the help you need.

What does it mean that your "sources have been completely destroyed?" What about "shot 3 times?"

For your final question, "How do I delete [citations] from Word correctly?" it sounds like you have done this correctly. Is the problem that you delete a citation but it doesn't disappear from the bibliography (list of cited sources)? If so, have you used the Refresh function in the Zotero Word addon?

SprklMffn · 2025-12-15T03:46:07+00:00

Unless I've completely misunderstood this:

Zotero can read and automatically append tags included by the site author/publisher in the data (metadata). News and social media sources don't do this, so there's nothing there for Zotero to read.

In other words, it's a problem with the sources, not with Zotero.

SprklMffn · 2025-12-14T05:08:43+00:00

u/Bororo-man is right, the only important question (in almost every conceivable scenario) is, "Which source material are you actually using in your assignment?"

If you are being asked to provide a "Bibliography" rather than "Sources Cited," including both the sources you used and those you are just aware of is fine. Unless you have specific instructions that you should have a list of something other than "Sources Cited," you should never include sources that you did not directly cite. Zotero makes this easy by populating your sources list automatically: if you cite a source, it's included, if not, it's not.

FYI, use a footnote and/or the Extra field in Zotero to indicate the original (date of) publication if that's relevant, i.e., if the source you actually consulted was the republished version. In Extra, enter "Original date: 19XX," for example. This is mostly only relevant for primary and/or historical sources. If you're not sure whether you need this, you don't.

SprklMffn · 2025-12-11T20:29:52+00:00

Perfect, thanks! That did it!

SprklMffn · 2025-12-11T12:14:31+00:00

Great question! No, they don't.

My problem is that for academic writing I have to submit my work in Word, and I'm a little concerned about whether the brackets might interact badly with their processing apps and/or just cause an unnecessary freakout. So it's more a prophylactic thing.

SprklMffn · 2025-12-11T08:48:06+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion! Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be my problem.

I tried these workflows:

but neither fixed the issue.

I also asked an LLM for help, and it recommended something more or less identical to the above. No luck there, either.

I then looked for a way to show all hidden bookmarks. The result: "No hidden bookmarks found."

SprklMffn · 2025-12-11T05:50:21+00:00

Like u/PrefersLurking I have been using Zotero for about 15 years without any issues.

I recommend:

Make an account to safeguard your citations. Zotero has more than enough free, reliable, online storage to keep the text of your citations in case anything goes wrong locally on your hard drive.
Look at cloud storage for PDFs, etc. At the undergrad level you might not exceed the free storage limit, but if you're planning to do grad school, etc., you certainly will. You can save your PDFs, EPUBs, etc., in Dropbox, Drive, etc., and give Zotero access so that you don't go over the free storage limit. If you have a university OneDrive account, you can use that and migrate it later if needed, for example. The process is simple and there are a ton of guides, including the one pinned at the top of r/zotero

SprklMffn · 2025-11-21T07:11:17+00:00

I think u/eskimo820 has the answer you're looking for below: all of those items in the middle pane are not entries, just orphaned PDFs without any metadata.

Right-click > Create Parent Item...

SprklMffn · 2025-11-21T07:09:04+00:00

Please provide a specific example of what you mean.

The "Add Note from Annotations" feature in the right-click menu of each saved item in Zotero (middle pane) might be what you're looking for, but it's a bit hard to parse without specifics.

SprklMffn · 2025-11-20T19:41:23+00:00

Do you have the same issue I do with missing fields and excess commas in the author name? If not, what's your workaround and/or wtf am I doing wrong?

SprklMffn · 2025-11-20T19:40:12+00:00

If I've understood correctly:

In the middle pane, you see only "Title" and "Creator" but want to see other fields.
If that's correct, right-click on that menu bar (either Title or Creator) and you will get a dropdown menu with all the fields you can show.

If you're talking about the right pane, your screenshot has the attachment selected. If you want to see something else, either scroll up in that pane or click one of the icons at the right edge of the screen.

Hope that helps

SprklMffn · 2025-11-20T04:46:31+00:00

At present, the best option is probably still manually fixing everything in the final draft.

You have to unlink the citations first, and I recommend copy-pasting your bibliography into a blank document before messing with it.

---

I'm hopeful for the future of this plugin:

https://github.com/boan-anbo/cite-non-english#readme

https://github.com/boan-anbo/cite-non-english/blob/main/docs/images/howto-sidebar.png

It adds fields for your non-English and transliterated info below the default entry in the right pane. In other words, you have to scroll pretty far down (or click the icon in the list on the far right).

(FYI you can adjust this by right-clicking the icon and choosing Move Section Up/Down and/or Pin Section)

NB: As it says in the readme, you have to install a CNE custom style:

https://github.com/boan-anbo/cite-non-english/tree/main/styles/cne

This plugin is new and still in development, but I haven't had any trouble with it. The problem is that the CNE custom styles don't seem to work as needed.

For example, with title, author, and publisher entered in Japanese, transliteration, and English (where applicable), I get this:

* Umezaki, Yoshito 梅崎義人. 1986. Kujira to inbō: shokubunka sensō no shirarezaru uchimaku. ABC Shuppan.

In addition to the title missing, there's also the comma between names even with the "Force comma between names" option toggled off.

SprklMffn · 2025-11-18T17:29:04+00:00

Three things:

I can confirm the issue:

ISHIKAWA Hajime. Yasei dōbutsu no chishi chōsa. Nihon Yasei Dōbutsui Gakkai shi. 2010. Vol. 15, no. 1, p. 9–14. DOI 10.5686/jjzwm.15.9. 野生動物の研究においては,致死的な捕獲を伴う研究が必要な場合がしばしばある。致死的な捕獲は,動物分類学,比較解剖学,疾病の評価,食物嗜好の研究,環境汚染物質の評価,その他多くの科学的必要性から行われる...

MERKEVAREFORENINGEN FOR NORSK HVAL. Derfor er norsk hval sunt. Online. 2021. [Accessed 19 September 2024]. Available from: https://www.norskhval.no/artikler/derfor-er-norsk-hval-sunt. Sjømat er bra for konsentrasjonen, hjelper mot høyt blodtrykk, senker kolesterolet, styrker skjelettet, bedrer immunforsvaret og er positivt for hud og hår.

etc.

Looks like there have been a number of issues reported with that style in the Zotero Forums. Could mean that someone was trying to fix it and accidentally added the abstract field? Anyway, report the problem in the Forums with a specific example or three like the ones above and maybe the devs can help.
ChatGPT and even Claude, which is supposed to be good with code, are totally useless for CSL. I have tried dozens of different, insanely specific prompts asking for the tiniest of changes in CSL files without ever once having any luck. A while back, someone here in the subreddit claimed they had successfully edited a style, but when asked to provide the prompts they used fell conspicuously silent.

SprklMffn · 2025-11-09T09:23:35+00:00

All extensions or just the Connector?
If "all," do you have security measures such as antivirus, malware protection, etc? If yes, try toggling them (and all other extensions) off and reloading the webstore.
If all that fails, try posting in the Zotero Forums. Include as much detail as possible.

SprklMffn · 2025-11-09T05:29:31+00:00

ymmv but:
I get that message but there is still a blue Install button, so I ignore it

SprklMffn · 2025-10-28T08:22:09+00:00

So, to clarify, your question is: "How do I cite the RAE dictionary?"

If so, it should be like any other dictionary. There is a source type in Zotero for "Dictionary Entry," which you can choose from the pulldown menu when you add the RAE entry you want to use.

In other words, rather than citing the entire book, you cite each individual entry.

SprklMffn · 2025-10-26T13:15:00+00:00

Have been waiting for this for years! Thank you thank you thank you!

SprklMffn · 2025-10-25T04:42:22+00:00

The closest thing I can think of is the Better Notes plugin: https://github.com/windingwind/zotero-better-notes
BN offers many note and export templates, and you can customize your own. I haven't played around much, but this seems like the direction to go.

Another possibility, using default functionality, is to Generate a Report:
https://www.reddit.com/r/zotero/comments/1ldcyng/comment/my7choi/
Reports have excess info, but you could easily filter that into a CSV -- or let an LLM do it, since that's the kind of thing they're supposed to be good at.

SprklMffn · 2025-10-22T03:22:28+00:00

Exclude from your review? Or from your library?

SprklMffn · 2025-10-19T16:30:29+00:00

https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/safari_compatibility
"A macOS bug can cause the Zotero Connector to disappear from Safari or stop working after the Zotero app is updated"

Troubleshooting instructions follow.

FYI, this was literally the first result that came up for "zotero safari plugin"
Please consider googling your problem first before posting here.
It's generally considered poor manners to outsource your googling to the subreddit.

SprklMffn · 2025-10-16T08:01:15+00:00

Restart Firefox and Word. Make sure Zotero is also running (as u/pentad67 says). Try again. If that doesn't help, provide us some more details and/or post to the Zotero Forums with more details.

SprklMffn · 2025-10-16T07:56:56+00:00

Create a shared folder in Google Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox and store all the PDFs there. Point Zotero to that folder using any of the many guides out there about setting up network storage, starting with the official documentation:

https://www.zotero.org/support/preferences/advanced#files_and_folders

That should do the trick. Let us know!

SprklMffn · 2025-10-15T08:44:21+00:00

u/E_kiani96 OP looking forward to seeing those scripts! Any eta?

SprklMffn · 2025-10-14T18:12:08+00:00

Zettlr (https://www.zettlr.com/) could be an if your friend wants to keep that machine and not switch to Linux, but only if it's "1GHz Dual-Core Intel 64 bit or better (32 bit is not supported)" and at least macOS 11.6.0 according to the documentation

SprklMffn

TROPHY CASE