automatic correction of journal name field from allcaps to title case

johnbruce.green
I apologize if this has been covered elsewhere. I searched for quite some time and found only a manual solution to this problem.

I have established a rather mature zotero database of references. As I began using word to insert the citations, I noticed that about half of my citations have the journal title in all caps. I see that this is not Zotero's fault, it came from the original source.
I have seen the manual solution of right clicking the journal title, selecting text transform and then selecting title case. Unfortunately this will be laborious, as the database is rather extensive and I am working on review articles.

So here is my question: Is there a known (or planned) solution that can automatically convert all of the journal name fields from an existing database into title case?

Even if there is not, thanks in advance and thanks to all the developers for such a wonderful product.
  • adamsmith
    this can be done through the citation styles if needed.
    http://www.zotero.org/support/csl_simple_edits?s[]=csl
    you need to find the line that contains
    <text variable="container-title"/>
    and add text case="title"
    so that it reads
    <text variable="container-title" text-case="title"/>
    (pluse any other attributes that were originally there. There are some occasional problems with this so I don't want to put this into the official citation styles, but for private use this should work fine.
    Do you still know where you got those citations from? If it's from a database, Zotero can/should transform on import.
  • johnbruce.green
    That worked beautifully. Thanks a million! By the way, most of these came from "ISI web of science"
  • ajlyon
    I've made some changes to the ISI translator to try and fix the all-caps journal titles.

    Please go to http://github.com/ajlyon/zotero-bits/raw/master/ISI Web of Knowledge.js and save the file to the translators directory of your Zotero data directory (http://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data).

    After saving it, try browsing Web of Science and saving items-- make sure everything comes through in more or less the right capitalization.

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