Capital letters in title when text-case is lowercase

snoopyzhao

Hi there,

when the text-case is set to "lowercase", how to keep some character, such as "DNA" in title, not to be lowercase. I have searched the Zotero forum with no luck.

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Jinsong

snoopyzhao

I will try to make more clear... For example, I have a journal article titled:

Confidence Limits for Hazardous Concentrations Based on Logistically Distributed NOEC Toxicity Data

When use text-case="lowercase", it becomes:

confidence limits for hazardous concentrations based on logistically distributed noec toxicity data

However, I hope to get:

confidence limits for hazardous concentrations based on logistically distributed NOEC toxicity data

My question is, how to keep NOEC in uppercase.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Jinsong

fbennett

Lowercase will force everything to lowercase, always. Sentence case currently forces everything to lowercase except for the first letter. Probably it should preserve uppercase for all-uppercase words in a mixed-case string. We'll look into this.

snoopyzhao

Thank you very much for quickly reply.

Maybe alternative way similar with the <i> and </i> in title for species' scientific names...

Regards,
Jinsong

adamsmith

There is really no rich-text coding needed for this - the idea is that you'd store the title in sentence case, i.e. including all caps abbreviations. We discourage using text-case="sentence" in csl styles because it never works correctly - abbreviations, proper nouns - there are just too many exceptions.

pinkie.li

Does you have resolved this issue? I am looking for some appropriate ways to achieve this goal. I hope to get some suggestions from you. Thanks a lots.

adamsmith

The recommendation is to store all titles in sentence case and rely on text-case="title" in CSL styles as needed. See https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/sentence_casing