Using ISBN Nos for New Entries & Resultant Item Title

catpurrson

If you simply enter a book via the ISBN number, you will retrieve the appropriate information, however, the title of the work is not properly capitalized -- only the first word has a capital. I'm not finding it much worthwhile to drag and drop existing stored PDFs nor to create a new entry via ISBN because either method requires far too much editing. IMHO, you are better of entering everything from scratch.

ajlyon

Are proper names capitalized as well? If so, you're just seeing sentence-style capitalization, which is the best way to keep references in your database. When you output citations in styles that require Title Caps (everything but conjunction and prepositions capitalized), the citation processor will automatically capitalize the title as needed. Since Title Caps are exceedingly rare outside of US English, it's better to use Sentence caps for references. Zotero pulls the ISBN entries from WordCat, which uses Sentence caps for the same reason-- Title Caps are an American style preference, and not inherent to the titles in question.