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Is there any tool to fix cases in references (LaTeX + BibTeX)?

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One common formatting issue in reference lists is that characters that should remain capitalized are often not. E.g., Chatgpt -> ChatGPT. Is there a tool that can fix this? I use LaTeX and BibTeX.

I have thousands of BibTeX entries spread across dozens of LaTeX projects, each using different styles, since different conferences often require different formatting, so I’d rather not manually edit all these entries to add curly brackets.


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Please include a MWE in your questions. If you get a lowercase title will depend on your bibentry, st... (2 comments)
What do you mean by a tool to fix it? The most common way to fix it is to add a second `{}` set aroun... (3 comments)
What do you mean by a tool to fix it? The most common way to fix it is to add a second `{}` set aroun...
Zoe‭ wrote 6 days ago · edited 6 days ago

What do you mean by a tool to fix it? The most common way to fix it is to add a second {} set around whatever you want to preserve the capitalisation of, i.e. author = {{ChatGPT} and Other Author}. There's no tool to fix it because the conversion to title case/-ish is a feature.

There should be a way to override it if you absolutely don't want to use the {} method, but that's not a tool. If you just don't want to replace it manually, there's almost certainly a find and replace button somewhere in whatever editor you use, but that has nothing to do with LaTeX or biblatex

samcarter‭ wrote 6 days ago · edited 6 days ago

What Zoe‭ said. That's not a common formatting issue, that's a common user input issue.

See also https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/386068/36296 for the correct input

Franck Dernoncourt‭ wrote 6 days ago · edited 6 days ago

Zoe‭ thank you, by tool mean a way to automate that process to fix many references at once. And it's about fixing since I don't want to convert titles to title case, but only fix Chatgpt -> ChatGPT and similar issues.