Very simple Zotero plugin to change the titles of selected Zotero items into UPPERCASE, lowercase, Sentence case, Title Case, or Headline-style capitalization.
Install by downloading the latest release from GitHub releases.
Version 1.1.2 targets Zotero 10 and improves headline-style capitalization.
Headline-style capitalization keeps common minor words lowercase unless they are the first word, last word, or the first word after a colon. Minor words currently include articles (a, an, the), coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet), and short prepositions (as, at, by, for, from, in, of, on, per, to, up, via, with). Abbreviations such as WHO, WHO's, R&D, HIV, and COVID-19 are preserved.
This is my first Zotero plugin. If you find any issues or have any comments or suggestions, please let me know!
Forthcoming updates:
- add preferences to:
- allow user-defined exceptions to upper and lower case changes
- enable to keep country names capitalized per default
- allow user-defined minor words for headline-style capitalization
- add new functionality to italicize user-defined scientific terms
Change log and credits:
- September 2026: v1.1.2 improved headline-style capitalization for
from,with, subtitle words after colons, and abbreviations. - September 2026: v1.1.1 removed legacy Zotero 6 RDF/XUL plugin code.
- September 2026: v1.1.1 added headline-style capitalization with lowercase minor words.
- September 2026: v1.1.0 updated plugin metadata and menu registration for Zotero 10 compatibility.
- August 2023: initial release for basic functionality
- August 2023: found this awesome zotero-plugin eschnett/zotero-citationcounts, that I used as a template and learning guide.
- July 2023: found dcartertod/zotero-plugins and borrowed temporarily
make-xpi.ps1. - later in 2022: tried using hello-world (not working for me) and Zotfile (amazing plugin but too complex for me).
- January 2022: created intial plugin folder structure using the zotero plugin generator,