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Hi, Derek, how come in all of your bibliographic entries you only put Caps on the first word of the title? I know that the French don't use all that many Caps, but the standard English usage for book titles is Caps on all words except, I think, prepositions and "a" "and" and "the". Ie, "A History of the Strange and Multi-colored World." I'm sure that Ro, our other resident grammarian will support me on this. Cheers! [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 20:00, 21 December 2009 (UTC) | |||
: This is handled differently and varies e.g., from journal to journal. See e.g. [http://www.bridgew.edu/library/styleman.cfm here] -- APA style uses lowercase. As an aside: This lowercasing often is then sometimes also used (automatically) for German titles where it is not approproiate. [[User:Peter Schmitt|Peter Schmitt]] 22:50, 21 December 2009 (UTC) | |||
::Geez, *nothing* in life is easy anymore! ''Ou sonts les certitudes d'antan????'' [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 23:11, 21 December 2009 (UTC) | |||
:::Simply put, that's how they come out using [http://www.worldcat.org/ Worldcat] and [http://www.zotero.org/ zotero].-[[User:Derek Hodges|Derek Hodges]] 23:19, 21 December 2009 (UTC) | |||
A quick check of a number of public and university libraries, including the ones I'm likely to use [http://www.library.utoronto.ca/home/] [http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/], suggests that that's how they're doing it.-[[User:Derek Hodges|Derek Hodges]] 23:34, 21 December 2009 (UTC) | |||
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upper and lower case
Hi, Derek, how come in all of your bibliographic entries you only put Caps on the first word of the title? I know that the French don't use all that many Caps, but the standard English usage for book titles is Caps on all words except, I think, prepositions and "a" "and" and "the". Ie, "A History of the Strange and Multi-colored World." I'm sure that Ro, our other resident grammarian will support me on this. Cheers! Hayford Peirce 20:00, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
- This is handled differently and varies e.g., from journal to journal. See e.g. here -- APA style uses lowercase. As an aside: This lowercasing often is then sometimes also used (automatically) for German titles where it is not approproiate. Peter Schmitt 22:50, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
- Geez, *nothing* in life is easy anymore! Ou sonts les certitudes d'antan???? Hayford Peirce 23:11, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
- Simply put, that's how they come out using Worldcat and zotero.-Derek Hodges 23:19, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
- Geez, *nothing* in life is easy anymore! Ou sonts les certitudes d'antan???? Hayford Peirce 23:11, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
A quick check of a number of public and university libraries, including the ones I'm likely to use [1] [2], suggests that that's how they're doing it.-Derek Hodges 23:34, 21 December 2009 (UTC)