Proper Capitalisation of Titles and Author Names

aminhilal · November 4, 2015

Hello

Articles titles and authors names are usually written with different styles. Some starts with a single capital of the first word, some all caps, and others in between.

In Papers there is a nice function which adjusts these details once imported. (So in case, the title was all caps, it is converted to the desired style)

Is there such a functionality in Zotero ?

Best regards,

adamsmith · November 4, 2015

See http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/zotero-quick-tip-transform-title-text/45575
Note the comments: you always want to use sentence case.

Currently no such option for authors (there's some discussion on if/how to implement this), but if you do find all caps authors on import, please let us know and we'll try to fix that.

aminhilal · November 5, 2015

Is there a way to do a batch adjustment for all titles of the sources ?

adamsmith · November 5, 2015

No.
Though note that citation styles can auto-apply title case (e.g. the Chicago styles do this).

aminhilal · November 5, 2015

Excellent, that's all I need. Thank you very much

Heckscher · November 6, 2015

With authors, a right-click gives an option to change the case.

adamsmith · November 6, 2015

@Heckscher -- it doesn't for me, and given that there is an open ticket for this: https://github.com/zotero/zotero/issues/39 it'd be odd.
I only get an option to swap first/last name for authors on right-click. Are you sure?