Upgrade StorageCapitalize ALL - Abbreviations
How can I capitalize ALL the letters of an Abbreviated Journal?
e.g. A Journal entered at the Publication:
JBL is quoted as JBL
JETS is quoted as Jets instead of JETS
All the Journals abbreviated with more than 4 letters has only the first letter capitalized
e.g. A Journal entered at the Publication:
JBL is quoted as JBL
JETS is quoted as Jets instead of JETS
All the Journals abbreviated with more than 4 letters has only the first letter capitalized
Also, do you have that info in the publication or the Journal Abbr. field? It should be in the latter.
There are differences in the character case format of journal abbreviations depending upon the database that supplies the records. Sometimes each abbreviated word begins with an upper case character. Other times only the first character of the first abbreviation (and certain proper nouns) have the first character in upper case.
Do some styles require the upper case first characters (Accid. Anal. Prev.) while others require only the first character to be in upper case (Accid. anal. prev.)? I recall that the recommendation for entering journal titles is to use sentence case. Is that also the best way to format entered journal abbreviations? Am I making much of nothing?
I have entered the info at Journal Abbr as well, but Chicago Style does not insert the Abbreviation, but the Publication info.
Thank you for your reply!
The way to fix this is to put Journal of Biblical Literature and not JBL in the publication field. If you need abbreviated journal titles, you need an altered/customized version of CMoS.
Arguably we could/should remove title casing (which is causing this) from journal titles for CMoS, but this wouldn't be a reason to do that.