Journal title casing ignore protecting {..}

[warrickball]

I'm working on an article and trying to cite a paper published in npj Quantum Information, which is usually styled as such in other journals, from BibTeX. A minimal bibliography file would be

$ cat test.bib
@article{khatri2021spooky,
    title = {Spooky action at a global distance: analysis of space-based
             entanglement distribution for the quantum internet},
    author = {Khatri, Sumeet and Brady, Anthony J and Desporte, Ren{\'e}e A and
              Bart, Manon P and Dowling, Jonathan P},
    journal = {{npj} Quantum Information},
    volume = {7},
    number = {1},
    pages = {4},
    doi = {10.1038/s41534-020-00327-5},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-020-00327-5},
    year = {2021},
    publisher = {Nature Publishing Group UK London},
}

The {npj} doesn't appear to be protected and ends up being rendered in PDF as Npj Quantum Information. For a minimal example, try

$ cat test.md
---
citeproc: true
bibliography: test.bib
---

# Test

I want to cite @khatri2021spooky.

# Bibliography

$ pandoc test.md --citeproc -o test.pdf
$ pandoc --version
pandoc 3.1.2
Features: +server +lua
Scripting engine: Lua 5.4
User data directory: /home/wball/.local/share/pandoc
Copyright (C) 2006-2023 John MacFarlane. Web:  https://pandoc.org
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is no
warranty, not even for merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Is there a way to prevent npj from being given a leading capital?

The full source files I'm working from are in this folder of a repo and I'm rendering them using the pipeline of the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS). But this MWE demonstrated the basic issue, that {...} doesn't protect journal titles.

[jgm]

Similar to #11013