MHRA and Acronymised Journal Titles

jakejackson · April 29, 2012

Thanks for this great program.

Just wondering how to enter a journal title that is all caps and to have it appear as all caps in MHRA. I am entering 'PMLA' and getting 'Pmla' back. Have tried both 'Transform Text' options and set the hidden preferences for capitalise titles to false. Neither work.

adamsmith · April 29, 2012

yeah, that's coded in the style (the hidden pref affects import) - we should probably just turn it off for journal titles, but it'll be a bit before I get to that. If you're in a hurry I can tell you how to do it locally.

jakejackson · April 29, 2012

If you could tell me how to change it locally I'd appreciate it. There aren't that many references that need changing.

adamsmith · April 29, 2012

First read this
http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step

Then, find this line
<text variable="container-title" font-style="italic" text-case="title"/>
and
and delete text-case="title" from it so it reads
<text variable="container-title" font-style="italic"/>

jakejackson · April 29, 2012

That fixed it. Thanks very much for your help.

Rintze · April 29, 2012

I also made the change in the style repository: https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/commit/3af45d21414ed7cc1b158487d2cd2823d7098a1e