[OS X TeX] bibtex capitalizatioin

[Adam M. Goldstein]

It depends on the .bst file, I am pretty sure. I am not familiar with aer. Check the docs?

If you can't find a style file that does it right, you can use BibDesk to change the case en masse. They have a script for that.

Adam

On Apr 30, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Paul Bailey wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am getting titles to capitalize as they are in my bibtex files, not fixed like bibtex usually does. Here is a demo input file
> 
> ------- start file.ltx =-----
> \documentclass[11pt]{article}
> \usepackage[round]{natbib}
> \usepackage{aer}
> \usepackage{aertt}
> \usepackage{ulem}
> \begin{document}
> Hi, \cite{ur1}
> \bibliography{ur}{}
> \bibliographystyle{aer}
> 
> \end{document}
> ------- end file.ltx =-----
> 
> and bib file
> ------- start ur.bib =-----
> @Book{ur1,
> author    = "A. B. Dude and C.D. McDude and J. LaHood",
> title     = "SeRious titLe",
> publisher = "Publisher",
> year      =  2011,
> }
> ------- end ur.bib =-----
> 
> 
> Then in the pdf I get "Dude, A. B., C.D. McDude, and J. LaHood, SeRious titLe, Publisher, 2011. " Notice how the title is "SeR..." and not "Ser"
> 
> What gives? For years I've relied on Bibtex to fix my caps in these files!
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> oh and
> ------------
> $ pdflatex --version
> pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.10-2.2 (TeX Live 2009)
> kpathsea version 5.0.0
> [snip]
> $ bibtex --version
> BibTeX 0.99c (TeX Live 2009)
> kpathsea version 5.0.0
> [snip]
> -----------
> 
> Paul
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