What is the best default sentence case for titles?

cormanaz
Just getting started with Zotero and am wondering what is the best default sentence case to use for titles when entering items into a collection.

Some styles use sentence case and some use title case. Will Zotero change the case as necessary no matter what style I'm using and what case is in the collection? Or will it only go sentence > title or vice versa?
  • dstillman
    https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/sentence_casing
  • cormanaz
    Alright, thanks. So I converted all the titles in my collection to sentence case, synched that, and refreshed my document. I have one bibliography entry whose title was previously in ALL CAPS and still is, even though in the collection item is in sentence case.

    Also I'm using PLOS One style which uses ICMJE references. In that all titles are sentence case, but my bibliography has a mix of sentence and title case.

    It looks like it did not change the previous references even though I updated the case of the titles. What am I doing wrong?
  • dstillman
    Have you clicked the plugin's Refresh button?

    If you have, the citations may no longer be linked to citations in your library, either because they're not active citations or because you deleted items instead of merging them.

    https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/existing_citations_not_detected
    https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/given_name_disambiguation#deleted_items
  • cormanaz
    Yes I did. That first link says if you get an "edit with Zotero" dialog (Chrome) when you click a cite, then they are unlinked.

    IDK how they got that way because I don't think I did any of the things that the doc says can cause it. I wish I knew bc it will be a pain in the ass to re-insert all the citations.

    Anyway thanks for the pointers.
  • dstillman
    edited April 22, 2022
    That first link says if you get an "edit with Zotero" dialog (Chrome) when you click a cite, then they are unlinked.
    No, it's saying that's how to check if they're active. We'll rephrase it, but obviously regular text wouldn't have a gray highlight or an Edit with Zotero popup.

    If you're getting the popup, the second link explains how to check if it's still linked to an existing item in Zotero or to one that's been deleted.
  • cormanaz
    So then by one indicator they are not unlinked. As suggested in the second link, I tried clicking the blue bubble on a citation. It did have the "open in my library" button, but when I clicked that nothing happened. I also tried deleting and re-inserting the bibliography. It worked but didn't solve the title case problem.
  • dstillman
    Are you sure nothing is being selected in Zotero when click "Open in My Library"?

    Can you provide a Debug ID from Zotero for doing that?
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