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Transforming the .bib file to get upper cases

I'm new to LatTeX and so far I'm happy with it. I'm using MiKTeX. In the bibliography section, the titles of @inproceedings items are all being lowercased. I am aware that I can use curly brakets to denote capital letters, but I don't like the idea, it ruins the beauty of having just to copy the BibTeX entry of a paper so as to have it referenced.

I've read somewhere that a .bst file needs to be edited. However I cannot found out which default .bst file MiKTeX is using. Any ideas please?

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  • Welcome to TeX.sx! MiKTeX doesn't use a "default" bst file -- you need to tell us what \bibliographystyle you're using in your document. A similar question for the plain style is http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/53006/transforming-the-bib-file-to-get-upper-cases – lockstep Nov 02 '12 at 17:55
  • I'm using \bibliographystyle{abbrv}. Thanks! – Krt_Malta Nov 02 '12 at 18:31
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    The plain solution should also work for abbrv. – lockstep Nov 02 '12 at 18:34
  • Also keep in mind that usually the reference sources are providing erroneous/bad BibTeX entries e.g. journals, publisher websites etc. So I wouldn't count on them too much. – percusse Nov 02 '12 at 20:33
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    Capitalizing titles is a style decision; the standard styles choose not to keep possible capitalizations in the original titles, other styles do differently. It's important that words that must keep the capital letter, such as names of people, are input in braces. My personal opinion is that while capitalization may be used in the document title (but I wouldn't), it's just heavy and cumbersome in the bibliography. – egreg Nov 02 '12 at 20:50
  • @egreg “Capitalizing titles is a style decision” I'm not sure it should be. Capital letters in/of a German title may not be changed at will, for example. – cgnieder Nov 03 '12 at 13:14
  • @cgnieder I concur; a really multilingual bibliography manager should take care of that. In Italian we rarely capitalize titles, for instance. – egreg Nov 03 '12 at 13:34

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