APA 6th edition references capitalization issue
Hello all.. I noticed Zotero does not fix capitalization for references according to APA 6th edition requirements (Chapter 4.15). Is this a software or a user bug :) ?
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User bug ;). Store the items in your database in sentence casing.
If you store titles as sentence case (which Zotero can help you do), Zotero will automatically use title case if the style calls for it. The opposite just isn't possible.
Again, the equivalent in Zotero is just right-clicking on the title in the right-hand pane and choosing "Sentence case", and then correcting the proper nouns. You only have to do that once, and then never again as long as the item is in your library (which presumably isn't the case in RefWorks if the lowercasing is applied at output time). But we're not going to mangle proper nouns as a default.
(In ZoteroBib, where you choose a single style to use at a time, we do convert all titles to sentence case and instruct you to fix proper nouns, but that doesn't really make sense in Zotero, where you're keeping items in a database for extended periods of time and potentially using them with various different styles.)
I will try the fix you proposed just now. I hope it works. :)
This worked perfectly. Thank you!