amsxport automatically changes capitalization

Question

amsxport automatically de-capitalizes all non-initial letters. How do I get it not to do this?

Here is my code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsrefs}
\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{amsxport}
\bibliography{references.bib}
\end{document}

Welcome to TeX.SX!! It is better to give a full minimal working example. Currently we have to guess what packages etc you are using and this makes it really hard to help you. A MWE should start with a \documentclass command, have a minimal preamble and then \begin{document}...\end{document}. The code should compile and be as small as possible to demonstrate your problem. Cutting your code down to a MWE may well reveal what your problem actually is. In any case, it is really difficult to help you without more information. — , Oct 21 '16 at 00:55
You may also need to look at protecting the case of letters (e.g. when used in abbreviations). — Chris H, Oct 21 '16 at 12:59

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 21 '16 at 08:31

The amsxport.bst style file does not exist. As far as I remember, it has been dropped years ago (there's no trace of it in TeX Live 2012). In its place five styles called amsrn, amsru, amsra, amsry and amsrs are provided.

All five styles have

FUNCTION {format.title}{
    duplicate$
    missing.or.empty
        { pop$ "" }
        { "t" change.case$ }
    if$
}

which means that the title is made lowercase. This is the house style of AMS.

By the way, a \bibliographystyle declaration in a document loading amsrefs does nothing at all. The choice among those styles is done via package options.

What can you do?

Find amsrn.bst in your TeX distribution; copy it under a new name in the same directory as your test TeX file

Modify the function format.title reported above so that it becomes

FUNCTION {format.title}{
    duplicate$
    missing.or.empty
        { pop$ "" }
%        { "t" change.case$ }% removed!!!!
        { }% added!!!!
    if$
}

Modify your test file to be

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsrefs}

% override amsrefs style selection
\makeatletter
\def\bibtex@style{amsrn-mod}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\nocite{*}
\bibliography{references}

\end{document}

Now run LaTeX and BibTeX as usual.

The references.bib style I used is

@book{a,
  author={A. Uthor},
  title={A Capitalized Title},
  publisher={Pub. Lisher},
  year={2000},
}
@book{b,
  author={A. Uthor},
  title={An uncapitalized title},
  publisher={Pub. Lisher},
  year={2001},
}
@article{c,
  author={A. Uthor},
  title={A Capitalized Title},
  journal={Journal},
  year={2002},
}
@article{d,
  author={A. Uthor},
  title={An uncapitalized title},
  journal={Journal},
  year={2003},
}

The produced .bbl file is

% \bib, bibdiv, biblist are defined by the amsrefs package.
\begin{bibdiv}
\begin{biblist}

\bib{a}{book}{
      author={Uthor, A.},
       title={A Capitalized Title},
   publisher={Pub. Lisher},
        date={2000},
}

\bib{b}{book}{
      author={Uthor, A.},
       title={An uncapitalized title},
   publisher={Pub. Lisher},
        date={2001},
}

\bib{c}{article}{
      author={Uthor, A.},
       title={A Capitalized Title},
        date={2002},
     journal={Journal},
}

\bib{d}{article}{
      author={Uthor, A.},
       title={An uncapitalized title},
        date={2003},
     journal={Journal},
}

\end{biblist}
\end{bibdiv}

where you can see that titles are as input in the .bib file.

This looks very promising. Where do I find these files? I couldn’t find them, either by browsing through my TeX source files or by searching. I believe I have TeX Live, and I’m using a Mac. — Zach Blumenstein, Oct 21 '16 at 16:45
@ZachBlumenstein If you can use the Terminal, cp $(kpsewhich amsrn.bst) amsrn-mod.bst will do the trick. Anyway, the location in TeX Live 2016 is /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/amsrefs/amsrn.bst, which you can reach from the finder with the “Go to” menu. — egreg, Oct 21 '16 at 16:50

amsxport automatically changes capitalization

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