Unwanted uppercases in bibliography names and in captions

Question

when I use the apa6 or article document class in english, there is no problem. But when I put it in french the names of authors in apa style (with apalike) are with uppercases and it's the same about the captions ("FIGURE 1 : caption of the..." and I'd like "Figure 1 : ...")

I did't found something that works on internet (or maybe I didn't made it well). About the bibliography tried that : Upper case author names for BST file (based on APA). Other stuff proposing to put commands in the preamble and it didn't worked also.

Thank you !

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Edit :

Thank you Ralf Stubner, that works great ! And the keywords texdoc frenchb permitted me to find that, that will help me a lot in the future : http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/generic/babel-french/frenchb.pdf

(Yes, the first account was a guest one (was a stupid idea), I go to ask to merge them, thank you. Thank you also for explaining to me how works this forum.)

So, with the Ralf Stubner patch and using apacite as you advised Alan Munn, everything works, thanks !

\documentclass[french]{article}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\frenchsetup{SmallCapsFigTabCaptions=false}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{apacite}

\begin{document}

Some stuff with the reference \cite{ref}.

\begin{figure}[h!]
  \caption{The letter A}
  \includegraphics[width=0.2\textwidth]{fig.png}
\end{figure}


\bibliographystyle{apacite}
\bibliography{bib}


\end{document}

Result :

Instead of that before your help :

So I guess that's good for me (hope it will works on my computer as on overleaf), thank you again !

Welcome to TeX.se. It's hard to know exactly what you're doing from your question. Can you construct a small, compilable document that shows the problem, and edit your question to include that code. Most of the formatting changes you see are being done by the french option of babel. Some may be able to be turned off. See the babel documentation for how to do that. The apalike style is quite old, and doesn't really implement true APA style. I would use either the apacite package along with the apacite bibliography style or biblatex with the style=apa option. — Alan Munn, Jul 17 '19 at 16:27
Welcome to TeX.SE. Please clarify how you "put [the document] in french". E.g., do you load the babel package with the option french? — Mico, Jul 17 '19 at 16:28
In french, the authors names is not exactly in uppercase– it is (or should be)in small caps. Maybe you should use biblatex-apa to easily customise if necessary. — Bernard, Jul 17 '19 at 16:32

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 18 '19 at 12:42

Partial answer about small cap "Figure": From the documentation of the french language in babel, which on my system I can read with texdoc frenchb, one learns that the command \frenchsetup takes the argument SmallCapsFigTabCaptions=false to turn off using small caps for figure and table name.

Minimal Code:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\frenchsetup{SmallCapsFigTabCaptions=false}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
  \caption{The letter A}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

Result:

Unwanted uppercases in bibliography names and in captions

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