Ambiguous references

[bobb]

I have a paper that has been passed between me and a coauthor a couple of times. The coauthor doesn't use Bookends, so that may be the source of the problem. When I do "scan document" (Word 2018), I get this:

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I'm not sure what the problem is, but I am guessing maybe the embedded fieldcodes are corrupted?

The references that seem to be the problem are these: [Silver, 1996; Long and Silver, 2009; Long and Wirth, 2013; Di Leo et al., 2014]. If I expand the fieldcode I get about 3 pages of stuff associated with these references. However I don't know what citation "S" is being referred to, or how best to fix it.

I've been getting similar problems with other references. Do I want to remove all the references and re-add them? Has anyone encountered this before?

[Jon]

Do they have embedded EndNote references as well (that's what gives you enormously long hidden field codes)? If so, removing them may do the trick.

Jon
Sonny Software

[bobb]

I don't know, but that certainly could be the problem. I will strip out all of the references and re-add them. Thanks Jon.

[bobb]

I found the problem. I have an equation embedded in my Word document that has brackets in it, which was my default citation delimiter. So I've changed the citation delimiter.