I have 3 refs and 2 sentences that look essentially like this:
Sentence 1: Text text text {Ref A;Ref B;Ref C}.
Sentence 2: Text text text {Ref C}.
When I format/update citations, Refs A and B format just fine and are assigned their appropriate citation numbers (“7” and “18”, respectively), but Ref C is assigned citation number “16” when it’s all by itself in Sentence 2 but “116” when it’s adjacent to the others in Sentence 1. When I break apart the group of citations in Sentence 1 (ie, Text text text {Ref A} {Ref B} {Ref C}), then Ref C formats to its correct “16” but as soon as I link the 3 refs back together with semicolons inside the brackets, it goes back to “116”.
To fix this, I have tried (1) to clean up the field codes, (2) to delete Ref C from my library (it had been pulled off PubMed) and recreate it manually, (3) to switch around the order of Refs A, B, and C prior to formatting, (4) to view the field codes in my Word doc then delete everything having to do with the citations at the end of Sentence 1 and reinsert them (individually or as a batch), but nothing has worked and I am absolutely stumped!
Has anyone else encountered this problem and/or know how to fix it?!