Upgrade StorageLetter case when using APA style
A question about Zotero's intended abilities when it comes to outputting citations and bibliographies.
Here is what I am looking at:
An article might come in titled and formatted:
"The New Road to an Economic Strategy"
in APA the bibliography should only trat the first letter as upper case and make everything else lower case, so the bibliography should be:
"The new road to an economic strategy"
So - my question is - SHOULD ZOTERO BE SMART ENOUGH TO MAKE THIS CHANGE AUTOMATICALLY IN THE BIBLIOGRAPHY?
I have not seen it doing this with the normal APA 6th edition. Similarly, when some library databases enter into they user all caps. I would think Zotero would automatically change case.
I have been working under the assumption that it does not do this and thus, after I do my bibliography I find myself doing a lot of editing of the document. I could just go into the database and change each original entry - but, honestly, that is not how the titles should be for any other reference.
Is this a limitation of Zotero? Does it require a special citation style - perhaps a variation of APA 6th edition?
Any insight would be appreciated.
Here is what I am looking at:
An article might come in titled and formatted:
"The New Road to an Economic Strategy"
in APA the bibliography should only trat the first letter as upper case and make everything else lower case, so the bibliography should be:
"The new road to an economic strategy"
So - my question is - SHOULD ZOTERO BE SMART ENOUGH TO MAKE THIS CHANGE AUTOMATICALLY IN THE BIBLIOGRAPHY?
I have not seen it doing this with the normal APA 6th edition. Similarly, when some library databases enter into they user all caps. I would think Zotero would automatically change case.
I have been working under the assumption that it does not do this and thus, after I do my bibliography I find myself doing a lot of editing of the document. I could just go into the database and change each original entry - but, honestly, that is not how the titles should be for any other reference.
Is this a limitation of Zotero? Does it require a special citation style - perhaps a variation of APA 6th edition?
Any insight would be appreciated.
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See here for more:
http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/sentence_casing
so the correct way is to fix this in your Zotero database, not in your bibliography
(shortcut described here: http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/zotero-quick-tip-transform-title-text/45575 ) and Zotero will convert them where title case is required (e.g. for Chicago Manual).
If you find imported titles in all caps let us know - with the URL you imported from - that can be fixed on import in most cases.