Libreoffice Writer, editing bibliography entries is generating a new reference for each modification

die_dev

7/17/24, 12:16 AM

I placed several bibliography entries in my document, I modified the biblio .odb file table using Base and I'm adding citations through insert > table of contents and index > bibliography entry.

However, I have the same bibliography entry several times in the document, and I want to modify it to manually change the page number for each of them, but every modification creates a new entry in the reference list, and I just need one entry there.

In other words, my reference list ended with duplicated entries for each modification I made.

¿How should I approach this?

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vanadium

7/17/24, 9:16 AM

For any slightly professional referencing work, the build-in bibliographic system of LibreOffice is not adequate and fundamentally flawed by design — I do not wish to show disregard: it is actually software developed in the nineties, but developed has never continued to bring it to current standards.

I recommend moving to Zotero, which is like LibreOffice Free Software. You maintain your references in a database system that is infinitely more powerful than the system of LO, whereas the LibreOffice plugin provides cite-while-you-write facility in LO.

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die_dev

7/18/24, 4:00 PM

Yes, that's what I did. I was reviewing the Libreoffice Writer documentation and in the Chapter 15, Tables of Contents, Indexes, Bibliographies, at the very end they say: "If you find Writer’s bibliography feature too limited, you may wish to try Zotero, a free and open source tool, available for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It is reported to work well with Writer (https://www.zotero.org/)" (LibreOffice The Document Foundation, 2023) References LibreOffice The Document Foundation. (2023, February). Writer Guide 7.5. https://books.libreoffice.org/en/WG75/WG7515-TOCsIndexesBiblios.html

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