Excessive Capitalization Of Citation Titles
Hi Zotero users,
This new version of Zotero, to my great dismay, capitalizes each and every letter of the citation, including the articles! And different languages have different capitalization rules.
How can I stop Zotero from implementing this forced capitalization? Is it possible for someone with limited technical/coding skills to do? (I use Chicago Manual of Style.)
This new version of Zotero, to my great dismay, capitalizes each and every letter of the citation, including the articles! And different languages have different capitalization rules.
How can I stop Zotero from implementing this forced capitalization? Is it possible for someone with limited technical/coding skills to do? (I use Chicago Manual of Style.)
I would strongly recommend you don't use an old version of the style and instead follow my advice. You'll be on your own with anything style related if you rely on outdated version of the style.
Thank you.
As for language - I'm not sure what "all that code" refers to. You're not supposed to touch the code for the style - the two letter codes go into the language field in Zotero and they are only necessary for non-English works.
http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/preventing_title_casing_for_non-english_titles
We should remember to update it once citeprocs parsing behavior of the language field changes (did Frank already implement that?) and the changes make it into Zotero. My understanding is that we will still recommend the ISO two letter codes, but we should probably explain that other languages work, too.
Frank's changes are already in the dev build and should be in 3.0.4.
Also, does this mean that the language field describes the title of the book, not its content? This could be confusing to users. For example, many critical editions of Greek texts are published with Latin titles.
In all but a very few cases, it doesn't matter whether "language" refers to the title or the work in general - I'm going to go out on a limp and say we're not going to introduce different capitalization for classic Greek and Latin - since "language" is a variable accessible via CSL, I'd generally recommend it to refer to the content, not the title when the two are not the same.
People working with a large amount of non-English works with English titles should probably have the language refer to the title, but honestly - how many people are going to be affected by that?
The best use of the language field is to indicate the language of the underlying work. The case you raise, of a source written in one language, but titled in another, is beyond the scope of current language support, but would be smoothly handled in multilingual Zotero (MLZ). In MLZ, it is possible to set language codes for individual metadata fields (and to add parallel language-tagged fields for alternative representations of the same information), so the item would have language Greek, and the title would have language Latin.
For an items with titles in two or more languages, tagging the language of individual sections of text is not practicable, of course. The processor does recognize a markup syntax for suppressing title-case changes on a range of text; if the demand for this becomes strong enough, that may be brought into play. If the number of items affected is small, it's probably simpler to just touch up the entries before final submission.
so when I export a bibliography it works and every first letter is capitalizes except for articles which is perfect.
however is there a way to have that in the zotero library as well? i.e where I have inserted Titles and subtitles?
For pandoc, implementing the very same thing has been proposed, and it'd be a good idea to use the same syntax.
The title word in <span class="nocase">lowercase</span>
Here are some test fixtures:
Just one small correction: there is no / in the first field code following "nocase".
UPD: It was my mistake, I put incorrect capitalization in Zotero.
———. Handbuch Geschichte der Sklaverei: Eine Globalgeschichte von den Anfängen bis heute. 2nd ext. and rev. Ed. 2 vols. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019.
——. L’institution de l’esclavage: Une approche mondiale. Ed. rev. and Compl. by Valérie Lécrivain. Paris: Gallimard, 2018.