Jun 30
An Attempt to Clear the Fog of Title Capitalization
Posted on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 in Capitalization
Style guides disagree on which words to capitalize in a title.
Here is one that is a variation of the Chicago Manual of Style rules:
- Always capitalize the first and the last word.
- Capitalize all nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and subordinate conjunctions (“as”, “because”, “although”).
- Lowercase all articles, coordinate conjunctions (“and”, “or”, “nor”), and prepositions (under five characters).
- Lowercase the “to” in an infinitive.
The U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual offers one easy style:
“Capitalize all words in titles of publications and documents, except a, an, the, at, by, for, in, of, on, to, up, and, as, but, it, or, and nor.”
[from Writers.com]
Here are some sites for further exploration:
Writer’s Block
eHow
AdminSecret (cheat sheet)
Writers.com
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