Make natbib keep bibliography capitalisation as-is?

Question

Minimum reproducible example:

% main.tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{natbib}
\begin{document}
Example citation: \cite{loenen2014type}
\bibliographystyle{agsm}
\bibliography{reference.bib}
\end{document}

reference.bib
@article{loenen2014type,
    title={Type I restriction enzymes and their relatives},
    author={Loenen, Wil AM and Dryden, David TF and Raleigh, Elisabeth A and Wilson, Geoffrey G},
    journal={Nucleic acids research},
    volume={42},
    number={1},
    pages={20--44},
    year={2014},
    publisher={Oxford University Press}
}

Compiling main.tex produces:

Where the letter 'i' in "Type I" is not correctly capitalised. Now I know you can add an extra layer of braces to force keeping the capitalisation, but is it possible to just tell natbib to "keep it as-is"? To be fair, many BibTeX citation suppliers simply just use one layer of braces regardless of any uppercase letters in the title, and it would be much more time-consuming and error-prone if you correct every of them manually.

Also \DeclareFieldFormat{titlecase}{#1} only works for BibLaTeX. Wonder if there's a natbib equivalent.

Welcome to TeX.SE! Your code uses bibtex, why the tag biblatex? — Mensch, Apr 25 '23 at 20:35
@Mensch because my current solution uses BibLaTeX? Nah I'll remove it. Thanks for pointing out. — Futarimiti, Apr 25 '23 at 20:38

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 25 '23 at 20:25

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Not an answer to the question but a temporary solution using BibLaTeX:

% main.tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=authoryear-ibid,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{reference.bib}
\begin{document}
Example citation: \cite{loenen2014type}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

Looks like \DeclareFieldFormat{titlecase}{#1} is not even required.

answered Apr 25 '23 at 20:25

Futarimiti

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As in bibtex styles this is probably style-dependent. – Dai Bowen Apr 25 '23 at 20:28

Make natbib keep bibliography capitalisation as-is?

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