Thursday, January 2, 2020

capitalization - Are chapter headings and other semantically smaller parts as the title capitalized?



I found the question Which words in a title should be capitalized? Regarding the number of answers votes and also according to my personal taste I like to capitalize titles. But what exactly are titles? Only the single main book title? What about other smaller semantic parts? Chapter headings, sub-chapter, ...


Answer



According to CMoS and APA (two popular style guides), some lower-level headings aren't capitalised in headline-style.



Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition (headings by level):






  1. Centered, Boldface or Italic Type, Headline-style Capitalization

  2. Centered, Regular Type, Headline-style Capitalization

  3. Flush Left, Boldface or Italic Type, Headline-style Capitalization

  4. Flush left, roman type, sentence-style capitalization

  5. Run in at beginning of paragraph (no blank line after), boldface or italic type, sentence-style capitalization, terminal period.




APA (headings by level):






  1. Centered, Boldface, Uppercase and Lowercase Headings

  2. Left-aligned, Boldface, Uppercase and Lowercase Heading

  3. Indented, boldface, lowercase heading with a period. Begin body text after the period.

  4. Indented, boldface, italicized, lowercase heading with a period. Begin body text after the period.

  5. Indented, italicized, lowercase heading with a period. Begin body text after the period.




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