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Capitals within author's names are lost in the BiBTeX record

When an author name includes capitalized letters other than the initial one, for instance BonJour or DeRose, the latter caps do not appear in the BiBTeX record. (Nor on the authors tag cloud, nor in the URL for that author). Here is an example: http://www.citeulike.org/user/dutant/article/1570939 The name appears as "Derose" instead of "DeRose" in the article page and the BiBTeX record, and the URL for the author is "http://www.citeulike.org/user/dutant/author/Derose". However, the captial letter is preserved in the database: in the edit page, the name properly appears as "DeRose" and not "Derose". So it is somewhere in the database! The fact that the within-name caps do not appear on the CiteULike pages or URL is not an issue, but it would be nice if they did appear in the BiBTeX output.

Comment posted by cjhall

Can you post a link which illustrates this?

Comment posted by waverleo

Except now the authors' names display strangely in the search results.

Comment posted by winterschlaefer

Works! Thanks :-)

Comment posted by cjhall

I haven't checked this, but try:

     =/Victor/VA/McKusick/=

Comment posted by winterschlaefer

I tried the

=/first-name/initials/last-name/=

hack on "Victor A. McKusick" (=/Victor/A/McKusick/=), in order to prevent it from being turned into "Victor A. Mckusick". With the hack, the last name is indeed correct, but instead the initial is dropped, producing just "Victor McKusick".

Here is the article: http://www.citeulike.org/user/winterschlaefer/article/1746908

Comment posted by rickl

This is a very useful workaround, but I'm a bit stumped as to how to make it work when an organization is the author. I tried =///New Media Consortium/= and it looks fine in the "by: " line (i.e. author is listed as "New Media Consortium"), but in APA citation format it's still: Consortium, N. M. Here's what I mean: http://www.citeulike.org/user/rickl/article/2846067

Comment posted by cjhall

There's a workaround for most author-related problems: http://www.citeulike.org/groupforum/301?highlight=1906#msg_1906

In your case, you can edit the author to be:

     =/Keith/K/DeRose/=

and all should be well.