Article titles not capitalized in bibliography
Book titles retain proper capitalization from the .bib file but articles from periodicals do not. Only the first word of an article title is capitalized in the .bbl file. Even proper names in titles lose their capitalization. Is there an option that needs to be set to cause article titles to retain proper capitalization? MKII Tom Benjey 717-258-9733 voice 717-243-0074 fax Twitter: @TomBenjey
Tom wrote:
Book titles retain proper capitalization from the .bib file but articles from periodicals do not. Only the first word of an article title is capitalized in the .bbl file. Even proper names in titles lose their capitalization. Is there an option that needs to be set to cause article titles to retain proper capitalization? MKII
This is controlled by the bst files and cannot be corrected elsewhere. In each of the four bst files in bibtex/bst/context, there are two calls to the do.t.out function: FUNCTION {format.t.title} { "" "\title" title do.t.out "" "\isbn" isbn do.out } FUNCTION {format.arttitle} { "" "\arttitle" title do.t.out } These calls have to be replaced by do.out: FUNCTION {format.t.title} { "" "\title" title do.out "" "\isbn" isbn do.out } FUNCTION {format.arttitle} { "" "\arttitle" title do.out } You will have to do that in a local copy, as I am a hesitant to change this in the distribution (it would introduce compatibility problems in already existing documents). Best wishes, Taco Best wishes, Taco
On Thu, 6 May 2010, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
You will have to do that in a local copy, as I am a hesitant to change this in the distribution (it would introduce compatibility problems in already existing documents).
Moreover, certain styles demand that only the first word of the title be capitalized and proper nouns be capitalized. I usually add {...} in my bib file around words whose capitalization should not be changed. Aditya
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Aditya Mahajan
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Taco Hoekwater
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Tom