Timeline for Should titles in the references be in title case?
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| Jan 5, 2016 at 18:27 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper |
Well, I have made it a habit to always completely enclose German titles in braces, because there is only one capitalization that is correct (beside all-caps, and I've never encountered a style that wanted all cited titles in all-caps), which should always override that imposed by the style. Maybe something similar is required for Irish. BibTeX itself probably doesn't "handle" them at all, because .bib files usually contain no indication about the language of an entry (let alone single strings - book/proceedings/journal title and chapter/paper title can have different languages!).
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| Jan 5, 2016 at 18:11 | comment | added | user0721090601 | @O.R.Mapper Certainly, and I don't disagree with you. But I think it's an unfortunately common enough solution that "makes sense" from strict adherence to a single set of rules which is easier for most than learning many different systems. I'm not sure how well, for instance, Bibtex can handle sources in English, German, Spanish, and Irish which all have very different rules— including mid-word capitalization for Irish as in *Sliabh na mBan*— and readers may interpret some of the differences from the primary language style as errors, despite not being so. | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 15:07 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | "None of the choices are really wrong" - I would argue that in languages that do not have a concept of capitalization styles, and instead consider only exactly one capitalization as orthographically correct, then applying #1 to the respective titles is at least very questionable. | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 2:46 | history | answered | user0721090601 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |