Bibliography keeps doubling

[dstillman]

There've been a few reports recently of a Google Docs bibliography being repeatedly duplicated, resulting in a bibliography that's hundreds of pages long. It's not clear to me exactly what people are doing when this happens.

• https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/80441/google-docs-duplicating-bibliography
• https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/82003/duplication-of-reference-list-with-zotero
• https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/82253/multiple-duplication-reference-list

[adomasven]

As per my question on the first query about this, it is most likely related to the citation style. Bibliographies are difficult to work with in Google Docs because they span multiple link objects (since a Google Docs link cannot contain multiple paragraphs) and I suspect citation styles with bibliographies that require multiple line breaks between entries might be causing this, but I need an example to debug with.

[dstillman]

From the (flattened) example document sent with the third example, I think it's just APA.

[adomasven]

Not clear what citation style they were using in Google Docs, but either way, i'd like to find out the style first and if it's APA then see a snippet where it's reproducible.