When I click “unformat citations,” my entire bibliography is removed. Why is this happening, and is there any way to avoid it?
Thanks,
Dan
@Dan_Olson Welcome to the forum. In the Google Docs add-on, the Unformat citations option reverts in-text citations back to unformatted placeholders, in blue. This behavior is intended to make references easier to find in your document.
If you’d prefer to change citation style for example, you don’t need to unformat citations. You can click on the citation style box (Harvard in the screenshot) to open the select citation style dialog, choose another style, and then click the Update citations & bibliography button to update your reference list and in-text citations.
Yes, I want to unformat my references so the links are blue and they’re easier to spot in the document.
My problem is that in addition to unformatting my references, it also removes my bibliography. This seems like a bug, since it used to work correctly and now it doesn’t.
Thanks for the revert, @Dan_Olson. This has always been expected behavior – formatting citations makes them acquire the chosen style and creates the bibliography entries, while unformatting does the reverse. The bibliography will reappear upon formatting/updating once again; you can switch between both states as needed.
Related question. Can we unformat citations with paperpile plug-in for Word in mac?
Welcome to our forum, @Reika_Watanabe! Not at the moment — the ‘unformat citations’ command is only available from the GDocs sidebar. The request to add this feature elsewhere has come up before, so I’ve recorded your +1 on the topic on our tracker.
I have a paper in Google Docs with the references added and formatted using Paperpile. I just installed the MS Word Paperpile extension. Is there a way to export my Google Docs version of the paper into MS Word while preserving the references in a way that they can be edited in Word? Do I need to unformat the references in the Google Doc before exporting to Word? I no longer see the unformat option in the Paperpile menu.
Thank you for reaching out here, @Andrew_Schamess! You don’t need to unformat the references in your Google Doc before exporting to Word. To move your Google Docs paper over and keep the Paperpile citations editable in Word, please follow these steps:
- Save the Google document to
.docxformat. In Google Docs, click File > Download > Microsoft Word (.docx). - Open the document in Word.
- In the Paperpile tab, click Settings and Tools > Convert from > Paperpile Google Docs.
This will convert your Google Docs citations into editable Paperpile citations in Word.
One other tip (not needed for the conversion): You’ll find the Unformat citations option when you click the gear in our Google Docs sidebar add-on:
