Sentence Casing and 'quotation' Marks

JonEP
I have a journal article with quotation marks in the title. I've entered it in Zotero in sentence casing, as indicated (i.e. https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/sentence_casing). However, when I use it in a footnote, the word(s) within the quotation retain lower-case, even though the style calls for upper-case letters. I'm using Chicago Manual of Style 16th Edition (note) style.

Here's an example. Let's say these are the details, as I've entered them in Zotero (and note that the title is entered in "sentence case" in Zotero):
Title: Nobody really 'wins', Charlie Brown
Author: Charles Shulz
Publication: Science
Volume: 57
Issue: 23
Pages: 1232-1243

You would expect the note to read as follows:
Shulz, "Nobody Really 'Wins', Charlie Brown", 1239.

But, what I get is
Shulz, "Nobody Really 'wins', Charlie Brown", 1239.

The short note retains the lower-case 'wins', because it is in quotations in the title.

Is that the expected behavior? Thanks.
  • fbennett
    As far as I can tell, we don't have a test for that. I seem to remember a discussion quite a long while ago, in which protection (or literal rendering) of foreign titles was said to be desirable. May still be open to debate, though.

    Rintze, Sebastian, any thoughts?
  • RintzeRintze
    Unless we would make it possible to hint at the locale of the quoted section, I guess the question boils down to what is more common: English titles with an English quoted section, or a non-English quoted section. My gut feeling is that the former is more common (which would argue for extending title casing to these quoted sections), but I don't have any data on this.
  • adamsmith
    I thought I remembered some old discussion on this, too, but I can't find anything. I vote for title casing words in quotations, too.
  • nickbart

    I’m in favour of title casing words in quotations, too, in particular because without this there is no way to get the correct behaviour automatically whereas you can always protect any strings that should not undergo case conversion by enclosing them in <span class="nocase">...</span>
    BTW, for pandoc “nocase” is documented (http://pandoc.org/README.html), but is it for citeproc-js? http://gsl-nagoya-u.net/http/pub/citeproc-doc.html seems to be down.

  • fbennett
    I'll make the change soon. The gsl-nagoya-u.net site is no longer with us. I am working to move the documentation for citeproc-js to ReadTheDocs. I'm revising as I go along, so it will take some time for everything to reach the new endpoint. If anyone would like to pitch in on favourite missing bits, the source is here, pull requests welcome.
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