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I have a bib file with most words in the title all capitalized. For instance:

@article{ekstrom2013family,
    Author = {Ekstr{\"o}m, Mats and {\"O}stman, Johan},
    Date-Added = {2019-03-06 17:27:29 -0800},
    Date-Modified = {2019-03-06 17:48:19 -0800},
    Journal = {European Journal of Communication},
    Number = {3},
    Pages = {294-308},
    Publisher = {Sage Publications Sage UK: London, England},
    Title = {Family Talk, Peer Talk and Young People's Civic Orientation},
    Volume = {28},
    Year = {2013}}

However, the pdf output does not show these capitals -- the article titles are all turned to lowercase. What would be causing this issue?

In the preamble, I have:

\documentclass[12pt, letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{graphicx} 
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\usepackage{setspace} 
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{threeparttable} 
\usepackage{rotating} 
\usepackage{amsmath} 
\usepackage[margin = .75in]{geometry} 
\usepackage{url} 
\usepackage{subfig}
\captionsetup[subfloat]{position = top, font = large}
\usepackage{float} 
\usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{cite}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{cleveref}
\usepackage{lscape}

\hypersetup{
  colorlinks,
  citecolor=Violet,
  linkcolor=Red,
  urlcolor=Blue}
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  • Does it help? https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/173990/1952 – Ignasi Apr 03 '19 at 07:42
  • Capitalization rules for the contents of title fields are determined by the bibliography style that's in use. Which style do you employ? By the way, natbib does not influence the uppercasing or lowercasing of words in the title field. – Mico Apr 03 '19 at 07:43
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    @Mico I tried both apalike and plainnat – halo09876 Apr 03 '19 at 07:45
  • Off-topic: You shouldn't load both natbib and cite. Use one or the other, but not both. – Mico Apr 03 '19 at 07:45
  • This is very confusing! Neither plainnat nor apalike apply "sentence style" (with lowercasing of all words not encased in curly braces) to the contents of the title field for entries of type @book. Are you maybe concerned about lowercasing of titles of entries of type @article or @techreport? – Mico Apr 03 '19 at 07:53
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    @Mico Yes, you were right -- the problem is with the journal article titles. I will fix my question. – halo09876 Apr 03 '19 at 08:07
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    I absolutely agree with daleif that it is preferable to wrap entire word in braces, not just individual letters to avoid negative effects on kerning. I should also add that I'm against simply protecting all words in a title to get around the sentence casing feature of a style. Either accept the output the style produces (sentence case instead of Title Case), switch to a different style or modify the style to stop applying sentence case. – moewe Apr 03 '19 at 08:26
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    Off-topic: Note that formally the packages cite and natbib are incompatible. In many situations they can coexist peacefully, but there are examples where documents loading both packages break. For most intents and purposes natbib is more powerful than cite. Note also that usually hyperref should be the last package you load (only very few packages need to be loaded after hyperref: cleveref is one of them, cite and etoolbox are not, they should be loaded before hyperref). – moewe Apr 03 '19 at 08:42

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