error: citation/ bibliography is wrongly placed in index area, please delete the placed citation/ bibliography in index area

Anonymous
2018-12-10T16:43:04+00:00

Hello community,

I am having problems with word and/ or mendeley. It keeps showing me the following error: "citation/ bibliography is wrongly placed in index area, please delete the placed citation/ bibliography in index area" when trying to edit or insert a citation.

any suggestions on how to solve the problem?

Kind Regards,

Eva

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Anonymous
2018-12-18T19:17:06+00:00

I had the same problem, just after the update - immediately after the update.

I wasn't having any citation highlighted, but rather a Prism graph. I took someone's advice and turned on field code by pressing alt+F9. I found this bit of code: "{ ADDIN }" appended to the end of the field code for my embedded graph. Once I deleted that item the document became functional again. I just replicated the same fix in a backup version of the file I had made, it really is just that piece of code.

It looks like there are other pieces of code containing "ADDIN", based on a ctl+f search, one for each of my citations. But this { ADDIN } was the only one that was sitting alone, with nothing else in its curly braces. 

So here are the steps: 

  1. Hit ALT+F9
  2. Search for ADDIN (I didn't get a result for { ADDIN, only the letters themselves worked)
  3. Delete the search result that is { ADDIN } alone
  4. Try to refresh your bibliography to see if it's fixed!

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Anonymous
2018-12-14T11:05:17+00:00

I managed to correct the error. Hope it will help others.

Every time I received the window with an error, Word was pointing on a particular piece of text with some citation that has a mistake (too bad it's not highlighted). You need to identify which citation is corrupted and delete it (just copy different parts of your text into a new word document + compile bibliography again, so that way you can eliminate the corrupted citation).

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-03-10T01:31:25+00:00

    Hello community,

    I am having problems with word and/ or mendeley. It keeps showing me the following error: "citation/ bibliography is wrongly placed in index area, please delete the placed citation/ bibliography in index area" when trying to edit or insert a citation.

    any suggestions on how to solve the problem?

    Kind Regards,

    Eva

    I solved the problem when I take out all the Index or the glossary of the document. I think that Mendeley is not compatible with it in Word.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-03-12T16:02:37+00:00

    Hello community,

    I am having problems with word and/ or mendeley. It keeps showing me the following error: "citation/ bibliography is wrongly placed in index area, please delete the placed citation/ bibliography in index area" when trying to edit or insert a citation.

    any suggestions on how to solve the problem?

    Kind Regards,

    Eva

    In my case Alt + F9 did not solve, I found the error in the title entry to do the summary, somehow this was conflicting with the mendeley. Taking the annotation that is hidden from the titles, (such annotations are possible to see using Ctrl + *), then simplies replace for nothing and mendeley returned to work

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-03-16T12:34:57+00:00

    Prezado,

    Um dia estava exibindo esse problema, varias vezes o Mendeley e o erro continuava. Por último o Escritório em que o problema estava nele. Mais o erro persistia.

    A solução para a resposta à sua resposta do arquivo voltou a funcionar corretamente.

    Agradeço pela orientação

    Querida,

    Um dia ele estava exibindo esse problema, várias vezes o Mendeley e o erro continuou. Finalmente o escritório onde estava o problema. Mas o erro persistiu.

    A solução para a resposta à sua resposta de arquivo voltou a funcionar corretamente.

    Obrigado pela orientação.

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