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kb:preventing_title_casing_for_non-english_titles [2017/11/20 08:42] – Remove Zotero 5 warning and add comment about sentence casing. bwiernikkb:preventing_title_casing_for_non-english_titles [2020/01/22 19:17] dstillman
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-=== How do I prevent Title Casing of non-English titles in bibliographies? ===+=== How do I prevent title casing of non-English titles in bibliographies? ===
  
-Some CSL citation styles, such as the Chicago Manual of Style styles, convert titles to Title Case. However, Title Casing is specific to English. To prevent non-English titles from being Title Cased, specify the language of the corresponding item in your Zotero library using the "language" field.+Some CSL citation styles, such as the Chicago Manual of Style styles, convert titles to title case. However, title casing is specific to English. To prevent non-English titles from being title cased, specify the language of the corresponding item in your Zotero library using the "language" field.
  
 Use two-letter language codes, e.g. "de" for German, "fr" for French, or "ja" for Japanese (four-letter codes can also be used, e.g. "de-DE" and "ja-JP"; see https://github.com/citation-style-language/locales/wiki for a list of locale codes). English items can be marked as such using "en", "en-GB" (British English) or "en-US" (American English). Use two-letter language codes, e.g. "de" for German, "fr" for French, or "ja" for Japanese (four-letter codes can also be used, e.g. "de-DE" and "ja-JP"; see https://github.com/citation-style-language/locales/wiki for a list of locale codes). English items can be marked as such using "en", "en-GB" (British English) or "en-US" (American English).
  
-Titles should generally always be stored in Sentence case; Zotero can automatically transform titles into Title Case, but items cannot be reliably transformed to Sentence case (e.g., while treating abbreviations and proper nouns correctly).+Titles should generally [[sentence_casing|always be stored in sentence case]]; Zotero can automatically transform titles into title case, but items cannot be reliably transformed to sentence case (e.g., while treating abbreviations and proper nouns correctly).
  
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kb/preventing_title_casing_for_non-english_titles.txt · Last modified: 2020/01/22 19:18 by dstillman