If you press Alt+F9 to display field codes, what does the CITATION field look like? In particular, what number is following the \l switch ("l" is lowercase "L").

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Stefan Blom
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The number following the "\l" is 1033. However, this is the case for all of my citations. What does this particular number mean?

Honestly, I got a little frustrated that nobody was replying, so I just converted the sources to static text and moved on...thank you for being the first and only person on this site to offer assistance.

1033 refers to US English, so that doesn't give a clue in this case. :-(

For what it's worth, all of these language IDs are listed in the article at https://support.office.com/en-au/art...rs=en-AU&ad=AU.

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Stefan Blom
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Yeah, it's weird...like I said, there is no reason for there to be a Chinese character in the document - none of my text or sources have any Chinese characters or anything.

I can't seem to find one single case of anyone else having this problem, so at this point I'm just chalking it up to unsolvable...

Thanks for the follow-up.

Since you have now started over, it's going to be difficult to figure out the underlying cause, of course.

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Stefan Blom
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Yeah, I know. But I couldn't wait on this (it's for a research paper), and it didn't appear like anyone was going to offer up any help...

I guessed it was something like that. Of course, when we're on a deadline, we have to make do with a quick workaround. :-)

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