Hi nutritiously. Are you still having this issue?
Hi yes. Here is what happens:
1. I insert a new post or sometimes just update something in the text, and press update button on the post.
2. If I am logged in the super-scripted numbers appear fine and references appear fine.
3. When I log out or when someone else is looking at the page, they see all html in brackets ((blahblah ..)) instead of super-scripted numbers. The references don’t work in this case at all.
I figured out that when I log back into the post and at the end of any double bracket insert a space like so: ((blah blah))_ then update the post, when I am still logged in, the preview of the post shows the brackets and html ((blah blah)), but when I log out, the superscriptedd references look fine and references work at the bottom.
The biggest problem is that I cannot schedule anything because straight after publishing a post I need to quickly fix it, since every new publish shows the references wrong.
There is another problem which relates more to an improvement to the plug in rather than a bug: if I have two references to the same external article, the references appear twice at the bottom.
To comply with the scientific referencing standards, there should be only unique references at the bottom. In the text, the super-scripted numbers can repeat if they point to the same reference. If you do this modification this would become an ideal footnote plug-in that all scientists could use! Let me know if you want more details.
Thanks for the response. With regard to your first issue, are you using any kind of caching?
As for the second, have you activated the option in the settings labelled “
Combine identical footnotes”?
Static cache is enabled.
For the second issue, “combine identical footnotes” option is not a correct/standard way of referencing. Here is an example of what it should look like. By the way, by getting this plugin right, you make this plugin available to all the scientists.
Within the text I can have multiple links to the same Reference in the REFERENCES section below, but each of these repeated links will have the same super-scripted number. In the example text bellow there are 2 exactly the same links in different locations of the text pointing to the same reference number 1.:
UniqueLink_A <sup>1</sup>.
At the bottom in the reference section there is only one reference called
“1. UniqueLink_A”
text text text UniqueLink_A <sup>1</sup>, text text UniqueLink_B <sup>2</sup> text text text UniqueLink_C <sup>3</sup> text text text UniqueLink_A <sup>1</sup> text text text UniqueLink_D <sup>4</sup> text text text
REFERENCES
1. UniqueLink_A
2. UniqueLink_B
3. UniqueLink_C
4. UniqueLink_D
So, repeating exactly the same reference links within the text using different super-scripted numbers is not correct.
So for example you cannot have inside the text “UniqueLink_A <sup>1</sup>” and “UniqueLink_A <sup>2</sup>”.
In the references each reference should be unique as well. You cannot have for example:
1,2,3. UniqueLink_X
4. UniqueLik_Y
Each references has to have its own number and be unique.
Here is a site that exaplains it well: http://guides.lib.uw.edu/c.php?g=99161&p=642357
Go to “Example” on this page.
Thanks for that explanation – it’s appreciated. I’ll definitely (now I understand it) put this change on the list of work to do. I don’t think it’s going to be a quick one and, for now, I’ve got some more urgent work on the plugin to perform.
I’ll keep this post open and as soon as I have a link to the feature request in my database I’ll update this with a link so you can keep an eye on progress.
Back to the first issue – I can’t recreate this and my suspicions are that this is cache related. I can’t understand how the plugin itself would do it. Any chance you could disable your cache to see if it still occurs?
Thanks Dartiss,
As for the caching issue, I believe that my programmer tried various caching settings but continues giving trouble. Here is an example that just got published and html code is showing instead of references:
http://nutritionmyths.com/are-dried-fruit-healthy/
That’s the weirdest thing – when I visited the page last night, it was showing the raw references, complete with double brackets. Now, it’s displaying correctly. Have you changed anything since you posted the above?
Hi, my programmer did something to fix it (since I couldn’t leave it live unformatted for too long). I will let you know exactly what he did as soon as I get in contact with him, and if it was a permanent fix or just for this one article.
