diff --git a/chrome/content/zotero/bindings/itembox.xml b/chrome/content/zotero/bindings/itembox.xml
index f82050e1f..fdd9a1841 100644
--- a/chrome/content/zotero/bindings/itembox.xml
+++ b/chrome/content/zotero/bindings/itembox.xml
@@ -1947,7 +1947,12 @@
 							var newVal = Zotero.Utilities.capitalizeTitle(val.toLowerCase(), true);
 							break;
 						case 'sentence':
-							var newVal = val.length ? val[0].toUpperCase()+val.substr(1).toLowerCase() : val;
+							// capitalize the first letter, including after beginning punctuation
+							// capitalize after :, ?, ! and remove space(s) before those analogous to capitalizeTitle function
+							// also deal with initial punctuation here - open quotes and Spanish beginning quotation marks
+							newVal = val.toLowerCase();					
+							newVal = newVal.replace(/(([:\?!]\s*|^)([\'\"¡¿“‘„«\s]+)?[^\s])/g, function (x) { 
+								return x.replace(/\s+/m, " ").toUpperCase();});
 							break;
 						default:
 							throw ("Invalid transform mode '" + mode + "' in zoteroitembox.textTransform()");
diff --git a/chrome/content/zotero/xpcom/utilities.js b/chrome/content/zotero/xpcom/utilities.js
index fc4ca851c..6e0b66bc7 100644
--- a/chrome/content/zotero/xpcom/utilities.js
+++ b/chrome/content/zotero/xpcom/utilities.js
@@ -757,13 +757,17 @@ Zotero.Utilities = {
 						// not first or last word
 						&& i != 0 && i != lastWordIndex
 						// does not follow a colon
-						&& (previousWordIndex == -1 || words[previousWordIndex][words[previousWordIndex].length-1] != ":")
+						&& (previousWordIndex == -1 || words[previousWordIndex][words[previousWordIndex].length-1].search(/[:\?!]/)==-1)
 					) {
 						words[i] = lowerCaseVariant;
 					} else {
 						// this is not a skip word or comes after a colon;
 						// we must capitalize
-						words[i] = upperCaseVariant.substr(0, 1) + lowerCaseVariant.substr(1);
+						// handle punctuation in the beginning, including multiple, as in "¿Qué pasa?"		
+						var punct = words[i].match(/^[\'\"¡¿“‘„«\s]+/);
+						punct = punct ? punct[0].length+1 : 1;
+						words[i] = words[i].length ? words[i].substr(0, punct).toUpperCase() +
+							words[i].substr(punct).toLowerCase() : words[i];
 					}
 				}