change case automatically
Some journals export their citation info in uppercase, so I end up with a mix of uppercase and lowercase in the title and author fields. It would be quite useful to have a toggle switch in the right pane that could change uppercase titles (and perhaps author names) to sentence case. Currently I have to copy-paste over to Word to do this. Could this be done inside Zotero?
Before heading off into productive work, a few issues need to be resolved among them the case change posted a few months ago:
When importing from Web of Science, Journal names are in UPPERCASE and this translates into the bibliography in Word. Is there any way to change cases either when importing references into Zotero or when generating the bibliography?
Thanks for any hints or for considering this in the further development.
Manuel
Also I would like the first letter to be upper case.
Would it be possible to define this for a field in all records, e.g. Title Case for the publication field in all journal articles, and imports are automatically converted?
Guess this goes into the chapter 'Custom item types and fields, as well as the ability to show/hide default entries' in the planned list and if case conversion is not yet planned, it would be a great add.
It would be great if it's the default "format".
it would be nice if "transform text" would also work on authors fields and other fields.... - it does not on my machine, win xp, portable firefox, zotero 1.5-sync3.6
greetings
mmoole
This:
THE DYNAMIC “STRUCTURE” OF ISAIAH 40-66: AN ANALYSIS OF ORGANIZATION BASED ON TRANSITIONS IN THE SERVANT AND OTHER ORIENTING MOTIFS
becomes this:
The Dynamic “structure” of Isaiah 40–66 an Analysis of Organization Based on Transitions in the Servant and Other Orienting Motifs
instead of this:
The Dynamic “Structure” of Isaiah 40–66 an Analysis of Organization Based on Transitions in the Servant and Other Orienting Motifs
For some reason it is not capitalizing the word in quotation marks. Not a huge problem, but I wanted to report it in case it's an easy fix.
Thanks.
It would also be great, if you would not have to transorm each title seperately, but could just decide whether you wanted to use english capitalization or all lowercase letters when inserting a bibliography into word.
Thanks (not just for listening but also for providing such a great tool)
Agreed also.
So a title like this:
A "Trinitarian" Theology of Religions? An Augustinian Assessment of Several Recent Proposals
is instead turned into this:
A "trinitarian" Theology of Religions? an Augustinian Assessment of Several Recent Proposals
The Trinity, the One, and the Many: An Analysis of Joseph a. Bracken's Philosophical Process Theology from a Traditional Trinitarian Theistic Perspective with a Response
"A new 750 nm solid state laser"
I would like to protect the unit "nm" (nanometer) from being Capitalized when switching to Title Case.
The middle initial with A should be simple: if it has a period, it should be capitalized.
Great product!
PLEASE could this be changed (for 2.1?) to convert to title case on import.
(especially for authors)
CSL can change the case of titles and authors.
There are some limits - e.g. it currently cannot apply a different rule to first names - i.e. you can get SMITH, ADAM or Smith, Adam but not SMITH, Adam (as some styles require).
Similarly for titles, csl can convert titles to title case. Sentence case conversion is possible, but - almost necessarily flawed, as proper nouns cannot be recognized.
I believe transforming all caps authors/titles on import has actually been addressed.
So I'm not exactly sure what your problem is.
Also, remember there are actual people behind Zotero so it's really uncalled for to throw around words like "abomination" - be nice.
The sad part is that at least some of the CSL files do not seem to do the conversions. Well, that is why I found the thread in the first place. This reinforced my suspicion. BTW: The names still need to be converted by hand --- the text conversion menu does not seem to be there.
I am glad that the situation is better than I feared, and apologize again for the strong words.
Am I missing some important point?
Thanks, best regards
Rudy
For example:
American Medical Association
1. SEBER G, Lee A. Linear Regression analysis. New York: Wiley; 1977.
2. Li BN, DONG MC, Vai MI. On an automatic Delineator for arterial blood pressure waveforms. Biomedical Signal Processing and control. 2010;5(1):76-81.
Harvard Reference format 1 (Author-Date)
Li, B.N., DONG, M.C. & Vai, M.I., 2010. On an automatic Delineator for arterial blood pressure waveforms. Biomedical Signal Processing and control, 5(1), 76-81.
SEBER, G. & Lee, A., 1977. Linear Regression analysis, New York: Wiley.
IEEE
[1] G. SEBER and A. Lee, Linear Regression analysis, New York: Wiley, 1977.
[2] B.N. Li, M.C. DONG, and M.I. Vai, “On an automatic Delineator for arterial blood pressure waveforms,” Biomedical Signal Processing and control, vol. 5, Jan. 2010, pp. 76-81.
but if you want to modify this yourself you'll need to add text-case="title" to the respective lines in the code.
http://www.zotero.org/support/csl_simple_edits
For the titles - see my comment above - it'd be easy to transform these into title case, but these styles call for sentence case - something that cannot feasibly be done - so we leave titles as they are. If you have a feasible alternative proposal I'm sure people would be interested.
Example:
http://biomet.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/58/3/525
Thanks
Rudy