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Article #1526Title capitalization
From: John G Norman
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 19:50
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 19:50
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The BibTeX solution to title capitalization is to put letters that should always be capitalized in curly braces. This is OK, but requires users to massage their data after importing from CD-ROM, library catalogs, etc. There are really two kinds of capitalization: 1. Headline style. Most words (except articles, prepositions, etc.) are capitalized. 2. Sentence style. The first word and proper names are capitalized. A good system would be for EndNote users to enter titles in style #2 (Sentence). This is the form for many libraries and databases. It is easy to write a routine to output in Style #1 if one has a list of articles. (I have a list of such articles.) Converting Headline to Sentence style automagically is more difficult; you'd have to keep a list of proper names. Ideally, EndNote would also know the articles for foreign languages. Note to EndNote developers: YOUR COMPETITION DEALS WITH CAPITALIZATION!! While I'm at it, let me say that page numbers are a bad place in EndNote. Different conventions require different things. If the page span for an article is 100 to 101, some styles like 100-01, others like 100-101, etc., etc. Other packages provide control over this.
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