If you open your document with a different version of Writer, or use the Save As command to save a formatted copy of your paper in another format, you may lose the ability to format citations in that document.
If you plan to use your document with a different word processor, a different version of OpenOffice.org Writer, you should Unformat Citations before converting the document to the other file format.
Unformatted citations are regular text; however, they are temporary placeholders that do not reflect final output. See Unformatting Citations.
You can unformat citations and then save the document as a Microsoft Word file, as an older version Writer ODT file, or as an RTF file. For Word files, use Cite While You Write for Microsoft Word to reformat the paper. For older ODT files or RTF files, use Format Paper to format citations from these placeholders.