Capital in Bibtex

Question

I want to show some letters in Bibliography as capital. For example:

@misc{libsvm,  
abstract = {LIBSVM is an implbmentation of Support vector machine (SVM).},  
author = {Chang, Chih-Chung},  
howpublished = {\url{http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/}},  
keywords = {svm},  
posted-at = {2010-04-08 00:05:04},  
priority = {2},  
title = {LIBSVM.},  
url = "http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/",  
year = {2008}  
}

But "LIBSVM" is not shown as it is:

[3] Chih-Chung Chang. Libsvm. http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/ ̃cjlin/libsvm/, 2008.

How can I make the letters capital? Thanks and regards!

score 28 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 12 '10 at 22:38

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Generally, to keep BibTeX from turning your letters lowercase, enclose them in {}:

title = {A History Of {StudlyCaps}}

will produce "A history of StudlyCaps."

Alceu Costa is correct that all-capital abbreviations should be formatted in small capitals, but that is a different matter than this.

answered Apr 12 '10 at 22:38

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As a general hygiene rule, only escape proper names and acronyms in this way: the reason why Bibtex changes case in this way is that some bibliographic styles will uppercase and some lowercase titles. Cf. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1897728/a-bib-style-to-capitalize-book-titles-but-not-paper-titles/1920968#1920968 – Charles Stewart Apr 13 '10 at 07:47

Alceu Costa · Answer 2 · 2010-04-12T22:00:13.680

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The \textsc is used to format the text in small capitals. You can do this in your .bib file:

title = {\textsc{LIBSVM}}

edited Apr 12 '10 at 22:00

answered Apr 12 '10 at 21:54

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Thanks, Alceu! So if I want to make "Library of Support Vector Machine", I have to put L, S, V and M into \textsc{} repspectively? Is there a way to do it just once? – Tim Apr 12 '10 at 22:13

score 3 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 13 '11 at 15:05

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Place {} brackets around anything you want to keep in CAPS.

For example:

@type{bibkey,

  title = "{M}y {B}ibliography is the {B}est!",

  author = "{ABCDE}", 

}

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nanoeng · Answer 4 · 2014-09-07T03:12:16.217

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In the case of IEEEtran LaTeX Class template, one can simply do the following:

title = "{3D Open Source Framework for Something you need}"

A template can be found at the following link

http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

edited Sep 07 '14 at 03:12

answered Sep 07 '14 at 03:06

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