Upgrade StorageCapital letters on words with Chicago Manual of Style 16th
Hi,
When importing citations for books (and not articles), the first letters of each word should appear in capital letters.
I get "The sixties spiritual awakening: American religion moving from modern to postmodern" when it should be "The Sixties Spiritual Awakening: American Religion Moving from Modern to Postmodern"
Also, when citing a journal article I get the DOI (whatever that is): Riggs, Margaret M., and Walter Kaess. “Personality Differences Between Volunteers and Nonvolunteers.” The Journal of Psychology 40, no. 2 (1955): 229–245. doi:10.1080/00223980.1955.9712981.
Hope this makes sense!
Cheers,
Chris
When importing citations for books (and not articles), the first letters of each word should appear in capital letters.
I get "The sixties spiritual awakening: American religion moving from modern to postmodern" when it should be "The Sixties Spiritual Awakening: American Religion Moving from Modern to Postmodern"
Also, when citing a journal article I get the DOI (whatever that is): Riggs, Margaret M., and Walter Kaess. “Personality Differences Between Volunteers and Nonvolunteers.” The Journal of Psychology 40, no. 2 (1955): 229–245. doi:10.1080/00223980.1955.9712981.
Hope this makes sense!
Cheers,
Chris
2/ Edit your style here to remove the DOI: http://editor.citationstyles.org/searchByName/
1.I got the right click trick to convert sentence case to title case. Is there a way of automating it? The article doesn't say so.
2.I couldn't find anything about removing the DOI.
1. Don't use this trick. We recommend that you store titles in your Zotero library in sentence case. The style should make the conversion if desired.
2. User guide here: https://github.com/citation-style-editor/csl-editor/wiki/User-guide-for-the-CSL-Editor
1. That's what I have been doing so far, but the style does not convert it. The problem is for books only. Articles are ok.
2. I tried removing the DOI, but cannot find the option.
Sorry, not very good with all these!
The Chicago Manual of Style (and I guess most styles) do not need to include it, so you might want to modify the code so that it doesn't include it at all. Same with the sentence case.
I do have the latest style, because I recently posted another issue that lead to a modification of the code.
They are also required for an increasing number of citation styles (most notably APA).
As for the title case - this is a regular book item? And that's the case for all books? Do you have anything in the language field for those books?
Generally, though - what Gracile says - don't change titles to title case. Many styles, including NLM and APA - probably the two most common standards apart from CMoS - require titles in sentence case.
As for the language field, do you mean the settings of the software? I installed it in French, which could explain it. If that's the case, how would I change it to English? CMoS does require title case, though.
EDIT:
but it's worth a try:
http://www.zotero.org/support/supported_languages#switching_languages
(The bibliography language should make a difference, I believe, but it looks like you've set that to English anyway).
Could you say something about item types? Can you check whether Zotero does automatically title case some item types - e.g. journal articles - but not others - like books - in Chicago style or whether it just prints whatever you have in the title field.
Journal Articles are automatically title cased, but not books in CMoS. It seems, however, that this occurs only when importing with the item finder and when I type in the ISBN. If I import it, say, from Amazon, it automatically uses title cases.
What's supposed to happen (and does for me) is that Zotero takes the title that's stored in sentence case and converts it to title case in the citation.
So in Zotero it should say:
Title: The sixties spiritual awakening: American religion moving from modern to postmodern
And the CMOS bibliography should be
Ellwood, Robert S. The Sixties Spiritual Awakening: American Religion Moving from Modern to Postmodern. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1994.
If you import from Amazon, the title is in title case in Zotero in the first place.
Question is, if you have a journal article stored in sentence case - does the citation come out right?
I.e. if you have stored the title as
Title: Personality differences between volunteers and nonvolunteers
Do you still get the correct CMOS output, i.e.
Riggs, Margaret M., and Walter Kaess. “Personality Differences Between Volunteers and Nonvolunteers.” The Journal of Psychology 40, no. 2 (1955): 229–245. doi:10.1080/00223980.1955.9712981.
Also - which version of Zotero are you using? How are you creating the citations?
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Sheridan, Tai. Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011.
English
Sheridan, Tai. Buddha in blue jeans: an extremely short simple zen guide to sitting quietly. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011.
en
Sheridan, Tai. Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011.
Google Books provided 'en', Worldcat.org provided 'English', and Amazon provided nothing in the Language field via the web translators/icons. I didn't find this book in the Library of Congress search, but another English book provided 'eng' (which gave me the same citation as 'English')
Worldcat is pretty large in terms of a union catalog and I liked that it provides the language, but not if it's always going to make Chicago style behave strangely. Is there anyway to make 'English' behave the same as 'en'?
I'll see if we can get fbennett to fix that to make it into the next Zotero version, but that might get close, unfortunately.