Disappearing Citations; Invalid Source Specified

[carlsonloggie]

I've had the same problem with both Word 2007 and Word 2010. I have
book length manuscript with over 600 citations. Periodically some (bu
not all) of the citations will change to read "Invalid Sourc
Specified". And usually what has happened is that the source ha
disappeared from the "Current List" of citations. I have to go t
"Manage Sources", find the correct source, and Copy it over into th
current list. Then I can right click the citation, select "Updat
Field", and the citation will reappear.

I know that Word maintains the active citations in an XML file. It woul
appear that either Word is not saving all the sources into the "Curren
List", and is perhaps deleting some of them for reasons unknown. I
seems to happen most often with newer sources, but not always. An
although it usually happens with sources in the "Current List", it wil
every now and then happen to sources in both the "Master List" and th
"Current List". (This would mean the citation is disappearing from bot
the document itself and the "sources.xml" file, which would be ver
strange.)

Any ideas on what is wrong, and how I can correct the problem?

Kristofer Carlso

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

Does your system ever crash? New additions to the document's source
list aren't saved until you Save the file yourself -- but they are
saved, apparently immediately, to the master list.

You could also get the Invalid Source message if the reference code
itself was damaged, by being partially overtyped, for instance.
(Usually you'd have to have Shown Fields for that to happen, though.)