Changes spelling of english literature by export / Ändert die Rechtschreibung des Titels

Lieselotte9 · January 4, 2025

Hi,

while using Zotero with Latex i checked my bibliography. By english literature it changes spelling of titel and other inputs. How can i fix it? I just want the export without changing any spelling. Thanks

Hallo Zusammen,

während der Nutzung von Zotero in Kombination mit Latex prüfte ich mein Literaturverzeichnis. Englische Literatur wird im Titel offenbar verändert (Groß- Kleinschreibung) - unanhängig davon ob ich die Literatur eine Sprache zuweise oder nicht. Kann mir jemand helfen wie ich das Problem lösen kann? Ich würde meine Einträge gerne ohne Änderungen übernehmen. Danke

dstillman · January 4, 2025

Not sure what you mean here. Can you provide an example?

And what do you mean by "using Zotero with Latex"? If you're using the Better BibTeX plugin, you'll need to ask the plugin developer for help.

Lieselotte9 · January 4, 2025

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u16094079/vgb6diolmd42s0pt4p1j.png
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u16094079/tys8uit6xen31nm34920.png

As you can see below - some words of the booktitel changes (uppercase and lowercase).

adamsmith · January 5, 2025

You should generally store titles in Zotero in sentence case -- by default, the biblatex export will assume this and protect capitals accordingly. For how to avoid this, you didn't answer the second question: are you using the BetterBiBTeX add-on?

Lieselotte9 · January 7, 2025

The Export ist like this:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u16094079/ggf39i3yaoo36ol5lw3m.png

Apparently it isn't generally stored?

adamsmith · January 7, 2025

Right, so you're using BBT -- look at the BBT documentation or ask on the project Github: when/wether capitals are changed and/or protected by brackets is customizable, though, again, the default behavior makes sense.

I don't quite understand your last sentence: what I'm saying is that in Zotero, you should store English titles as sentence case (i.e. "This is the title of an academic article: this is it the subtitle") and the export to BibLaTeX will then handle them correctly, only protecting proper nouns.