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From: lang@pearl.PRC.Unisys.COM (Francois-Michel Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: bibtex
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Date: 14 Dec 88 19:20:43 GMT
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In article <33510@bbn.COM+ jzavgren@bbn.com (John Zavgren) writes:
+Whenever I use bibtex with the unsrt style (I have not tried any of the
+other styles yet) all the capitalized words in the titles of articles
+become uncapitalized, except for the first word in the title. It does
+not happen with the titles of books.  This is rather annoying,
+especially when a title contains an acronym or shorthand like M/G/1 for
+a type of queueing model.
+
+I have "solved" the problem by manually editing the .bbl file after
+running bibtex. Is there a more elegant way of taking care of this?
+
+RSVP
+John Zavgren, jzavgren@bbn.com

I'm hardly a BiBTeX wizard, but I did manage to solve this one, I think.
The stuff that munges on the capitalization of the article is the following
code in the file unsrt.bst:

----------
FUNCTION {format.title}
{ title missing$
    { "" }
    { title "ul" change.case$ }
  if$
}
----------

If you replace that with

----------
FUNCTION {format.title}
{ title field.or.null
}
----------

I think you'll get the behavior you want.
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Francois-Michel Lang
Paoli Research Center, Unisys Corporation lang@prc.unisys.com (215) 648-7256
Dept of Comp & Info Science, U of PA      lang@cis.upenn.edu  (215) 898-9511