While using Literature references in LyX provided by BibDesk on Mac OS 10.8 capital letters are getting confused

Question

On my Mac I am working with BibDesk to manage my literature references in LyX. Everything works just fine. Except for the following.

In BibDesk I added a certain book with a german title in which capital letters appear and it looks this way.

After setting up lyx the citation in the bibliography section of my document appears this way.

Somehow the letters f in the word Funktionen and the M in the word Modulformen were transformed to lower case, which is wrong and clearly not the same as I entered them in BibDesk.

Any idea where this comes from?

Answer 1

Enclose the letters that you would like preserved as uppercase in brackets, {}. If you would like to preserve the whole title, put everything within the extra pair of brackets:

{{Elliptische Funktionen und Modulformen}}

egreg points out in a comment to this answer that the following is better:

title={Elliptische {Funktionen} und {Modulformen}}

Note that there are reasons why the default behavior is what it is. There is a lot of information on this topic.