Society of Biblical Literature title capitalization

jwilcoxs

SBL style calls for "Title casing" of titles of English-language works in notes as well as bibliographies. The current SBL style on the repository seems to do sentence case, which would be in error. Below is the relevant section from the SBL handbook:

7.1.3.3 Capitalization of Titles in English
In titles in English, all words should be capitalized except articles, coordinating conjunctions, and prepositions, except when they are the first or last word in the title or subtitle. In hyphenated words, both words should be capitalized unless they are articles, coordinating conjunctions, or prepositions (unless used adverbially), or if the word is a prefixattached to anything other than a proper noun or proper adjective. In these cases the word
should be lowercase. Cf. CMS 7.127–28.

7.1.3.4 Capitalization of Titles Not in English
For titles in languages other than English, the general rule is to capitalize only the first word of the title or subtitle and any words that would be capitalized in a normal sentence. [etc.]

Thanks!

adamsmith

thanks, I'll let you know when it's fixed.
(For 7.1.3.4, i.e. foreign language titles, you'll have to have something in the "language" field. We recommend ISO two letter codes such as fr for French, de for German etc., but anything that doesn't start with En will do.

jwilcoxs

Thanks, adamsmith.

Incidentally, that "Date" field for journal articles should only show the year of publication, not month and day.

I've made a version that will work for me in the meantime. Thanks again.

adamsmith

The style is now fixed. The updated version will appear on the repository within 30mins (check the timestamp). Update your copy of the style by re-installing it from the repository. (See here if you need instructions for installing styles in standalone.)

Styles should also update automatically within 24hs for Zotero 4.0+

Any further problems please let us know.

dstark

Adamsmith, thanks for the advance tip on using the language field to specify titles that are in other languages and shouldn't be capitalized according to standard English conventions.

Much appreciated.