Word changing capitalisation from CSL style

beccagregs
Hi all,

I'm fairly new to Zotero (using 4.0.29.10 on Windows 7) and have been ironing out issues and tweaking my referencing style. I've got things just about as I want them, but am having trouble with the way Word 2013 capitalises titles. Basically I don't want titles of journal articles and web pages in title case, nor in sentence case - I just want them as I've input them. I've made sure extensions.Zotero.capitalizeTitles is set to false, and removed the appropriate text-case sections from the CSL (on the basis that this should stop it making changes, which seems to be working in the previewer). All is fine when I preview the references in Zotero, but for some reason the footnotes and bibliography in MS Word persist in showing all titles as capitalised. Am I doing something wrong? I can't understand why Word would display references in a different format from how Zotero thinks they should be displayed.

Thanks!
  • adamsmith
    Zotero.capitalizeTitles in an import option, so you can disregard that.

    If this works in Zotero (in the style editor, I assume) but not in Word, this isn't a problem with your citation style (what you did sounds fine, too).

    My best guesses would be
    1. You don't have the new citation style installed properly or active in Word.
    2. The Word document still has old, wrongly capitalized original Zotero items stored internally.

    In both cases, the first troubleshooting step would be to test in a new, empty document. If that works correctly, I'd try switching to a different style and back in the existing doc. That typically takes care of issue 1.
  • beccagregs
    Hi Adam,

    Yes, you're absolutely right - looks like the style wasn't active. I switched to a different style then back again, and all seems to be working fine now. I'd checked the right style was active before, but it obviously hadn't updated after I made changes.

    Thanks so much for your help!
  • bwiernik
    Changes to styles sometimes don't show up in Word until the style is reloaded (as you noticed), so always a good idea to change to a different style and back again when testing out changes.
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