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

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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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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:

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

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Anonymous

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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Anonymous

2018-12-14T19:45:49+00:00

This issue is really annoying. Every time I use an index created on my own, I cannot use Mendeley any more.

Well to remove all manually created indices is possible, but not really a good solution.

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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Charles Kenyon 171K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2018-12-14T19:59:21+00:00

This issue is really annoying. Every time I use an index created on my own, I cannot use Mendeley any more.

Well to remove all manually created indices is possible, but not really a good solution.

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

If you just want to complain, that's OK.

Check with Mendeley and see if they have an update.

Make sure you are using the latest version of Word.

If you want help, start a new thread giving details of your problem.
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Anonymous

2018-12-15T01:03:05+00:00

Yes, its worked very well!!! thanks for share your experience, I was crazy! I cut and pasted (without format) 4 paragraphs, and the problem was solved!

Thanks

Cari
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