Pandoc follows the CSL docs:

"Title case conversion (with text-case set to “title”) for English-language
items is performed by:

For uppercase strings, the first character of each word remains capitalized.
All other letters are lowercased.
For lower or mixed case strings, the first character of each lowercase word
is capitalized. The case of words in mixed or uppercase stays the same.
In both cases, stop words are lowercased, unless they are the first or last
word in the string, or follow a colon. The stop words are “a”, “an”, “and”,
“as”, “at”, “but”, “by”, “down”, “for”, “from”, “in”, “into”, “nor”, “of”,
“on”, “onto”, “or”, “over”, “so”, “the”, “till”, “to”, “up”, “via”, “with”,
and “yet”.

As far as I can see, this says that "a.k.a." should be
capitalized (even though obviously that's not a good
outcome).

It seems to me that a good rule would be that any word
containing an internal period should have its case left
alone, but it would be good to get feedback from the
CSL/Zotero side.

+++ Joseph Reagle [Oct 12 17 10:00 ]:

I'm not sure if the problem is my data, citeproc, or the CSL. The problem is the awkward casing of "A.k.a." when `--style-csl chicago-fullnote-bibliography.csl`:

Paul Buchheit, “Applied Philosophy, A.k.a. ‘Hacking’,” Web log message, (October 13, 2009), http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/10/applied-philosophy-aka-hacking.html.↩


My data:

---
- id: Buchheit2009apk
 type: post-weblog
 genre: Web log message
 abstract: "Developer of Gmail discusses hacking of systems"
 author:
 - family: "Buchheit"
   given: "Paul"
 custom2: "lh.mm"
 issued:
   year: 2009
   month: 10
   day: 13
 title: "Applied philosophy, a.k.a. \'hacking\'"
 URL: "http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/10/applied-philosophy-aka-hacking.html"
 accessed:
   year: 2015
   month: 07
   day: 23
...

Should I be somehow escaping punctuated initialisms?

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