I have a googledoc that I have been working on in Chicago citation style, with in-text citations (Author, Date). I now want it to be in Nature style, with in-text citations of just a number. I have changed the citation style in the doc, and clicked ‘format citations’ and the popup loads that says ‘analyzing’ then ‘Formatting document with “Nature”’ but all of the intext citations have remained the same, and when I add new citations they continue to come up in Chicago style. What do I need to do to get this change to propagate through?
Welcome to our forum and thank you for reporting this issue, @phoebeford. Here are some suggestions to try:
- Restart the browser (in Chrome, you can type chrome://restart in the address bar and the browser will restart and reopen all your tabs of the current profile).
- Sign out/in of both Paperpile and Google.
- If signed in to more than one account on Chrome, try the same from a fresh Chrome Profile where you’re only signed in to your Paperpile-associated email.
- Create and format citations in a new Google Doc. If that works, copy the contents of your original document into a new one and try formatting again.
- Use our optional sidebar add-on to format citations. Once installed, you can enable it via the top ribbon menu Extensions > Paperpile > Manage Citations.
Additionally, a few situations can affect the Google Docs plugin’s performance:
- If your document uses tabs, make sure to cite only in the first tab — we’re working to support multiple tabs.
- If your document is in another format (such as .docx), go to File > Save as Google Docs, then try formatting again.
- If you’re using or have used Suggesting mode, accept all changes and format citations only while in Editing mode.
If the issue continues to persist, please let us know.
Thank you! I Think the pushing the ‘update citations’ command through the extension sidebar rather has fixed it!
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