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Feb
2
2011

  • Formatting of titles. One of the most important things to understand about bibtex is that the capitalization of titles is determined by the  bibliography style, and not by the form in which the title is given in the "title" field. Some styles use lower case titles for all bibliography entries, while others capitalize book titles, but set titles of journal articles in lower case. To allow these variations, bibtex ignores capitalization in the title field. For example, a title "Concrete Mathematics" will be set as "Concrete mathematics" if the bibliography style calls for lower case titles.  If a title includes words that should not be converted to lower case, those words need to be "protected" by enclosing the first (upper case) letter in braces. This is illustrated by the first example above: To prevent the words "Riemann Hypothesis" from being set in lower case,  enclose the letters R and H in braces: "{R}iemann {H}ypothesis".
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