Am 21. April 2026 um 07:25 Uhr -1000 schrieb Thomas S. Dye:
The problem is that journal names are set using sentence case, when I want them to just use what I've entered in tsd.bib.
I think this problem by now has become a FAQ that should be mentioned in the manual and answered with a hint to the "langid" field and the org-cite-csl-bibtex-titles-to-sentence-case variable.
By now I have settled on the "langid" solution; I made my yasnippets for bibliography entries simply always ask me for the "langid" field, so by now my central bib database has set it in the majority of cases. This way, I remain flexible in the citation requirements with the same .bib file.
Bibliographic style is intriguing for its extreme variability and scope for creativity within reasonably well-defined limits. A history would likely be a fascinating read, but in practice the variability is a headache for the author/editor. The bibliographic style for American Antiquity, one of our flagship journals, is so idiosyncratic that style files are rare and typically imprecise approximations.
I research in the field of law and have similar problems. German law journals have distinct citation requirements, often per-journal, which are nowhere else to be found, and yes, they demand articles as Word files as well. More often than not, the official styleguides issued by these journals leave many questions open, so even within the same journal, one finds different ways to cite certain publication types. As a consequence, I am building up my own CSL file repository by now. I suppose this is enevitible for the foreseeable future.
Still, Emacs + Org with CSL has been such a relief for me in writing my articles, because I was finally able to forego MS Word for writing and use an actually powerful tool. The one problem remaining is co-authored articles, because everyone else is of course using MS Word and e-mails the documents around with Word's change-tracking feature enabled. I still wonder if there is a way to integrate such a workflow with Emacs/org... Luckily, co-authoring is rare in my field.
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