pandoc bib booktitle problem

[danielskatz]

When references of type @article are in the .bib, the generated reference has most words in the journal starting with capital letters. This is also how @book titles are handled. However, for items of type @inproceedings or @incollection, the booktitle is handled differently, where all words are made to start with a lower case letter. It would be good if this could be fixed, so that booktitles would be generated in the pdf to start the words with capital letters, like these other types of titles.

[arfon]

I suspect the fix for this is somewhere in the CSL, where I can find examples of capitalize-first for some entries.

[jedbrown]

I believe the current behavior is consistent with APA style in Biber/Biblatex (but not Bibtex, which is much less compliant). Some years ago, I filed a PR to effect the change you would like, but it was declined on APA compliance grounds. See https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/pull/3760#issuecomment-434681412 and https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/pull/3760#issuecomment-437076172

[danielskatz]

Thanks - that's interesting.

I initially wondered if the new version of the APA style (7th edition) changed this, looking at this, for example, or page 23 of this. My guess is that it hasn't, but I'm unsure since the APA Style Guide is not open access :( This seems to imply that it hasn't.

In any case, my opinion is that we don't have to follow APA style and can change the style to one that works for us, which to me would mean that all titles are in Title Case, not just journal and book titles but also proceedings titles.

So if we can apply your change to our system, that would be good enough for me.