Turning off automatic casing

drewlongacre

Zotero is automatically altering the capitalization of titles in my citations in a MS Word document, which creates chaos with my foreign language titles and titles with symbols and superscripted letters. How do I turn off all automatic casing so that Zotero simply reproduces the titles exactly as I have them typed into the title field?

I am using the Society of Biblical Literature Style (2nd ed.).

In the Visual CSL Editor I tried changing the title and container title from text case "title" to blank, hoping it would stop, but it still keeps changing the capitalization.

bwiernik

Don’t edit the style, instead, add the language to the Language field for items in your library. https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/preventing_title_casing_for_non-english_titles

drewlongacre

Great! That helped for the foreign language titles.

Any idea how to get it to work with symbols? For example, I often have to write things like "11QPs^a" in the title, where the letter "a" should be superscripted. Sometimes in German titles, but not always, the "a" is put on the main line, rather than superscripted. In English titles, the "a" is superscripted, but capitalized. I realize this is a complicated symbol, but I use it a lot, so it would be nice if I could get it figured out.

Thanks!

adamsmith

See https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/rich_text_bibliography both for how to get superscript and how to disable automatic casing for individual parts of titles.

drewlongacre

Got it! Thanks!

11QPs^a

works beautifully. :)