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| FAQ Item Headlines and Titles of Works Q. Should “that” be capitalized in titles? Does it depend on...usage? Take, for example, this title: “Features of the Website That Are Offered as Premium.” Thanks...! A. The word that is always capitalized in a title. That’s because that’s never a preposition, and... |
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| FAQ Item Headlines and Titles of Works Q. People Seem to Have Capitalitis These Days. I am editing...our company directory and wondering if all titles must be capitalized. My column headings include...“Name” and “Title.” Under “Name,” I have Joe Smith. Under “Title,” which is correct: “Customer Service... |
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| FAQ Item Headlines and Titles of Works Q. Lately, more and more titles are styled in lowercase—the...this sort of title appears in a headline or at the beginning of a sentence, would you allow authors to.... (Yes, Ke$ha, I am talking about you.) A. If the titles are italic, they might work lowercased, but... |
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| FAQ Item Headlines and Titles of Works Q. On social media platforms, where italics are not an...option, what do we do with book titles or other titles that would normally be italicized? A. You have...three choices: (1) Let the capital letters speak for themselves: Main Title: Subtitle. (2) Use... |
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| FAQ Item Headlines and Titles of Works Q. How would you treat the title of a blog—roman with...quotation marks, roman without quotation marks, or italic? A. We put blog titles in italics. For examples... |
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| FAQ Item Headlines and Titles of Works Q. I see in CMOS that civil titles, such as “secretary of... titles such as “assistant secretary of state for bureaucracy and obfuscation”? Should “bureaucracy...the name of a specific department? A. Chicago style lowercases the title of the person but uppercases... |
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| FAQ Item Headlines and Titles of Works Q. Why are prepositions (and other such words) lowercase in... titles in Chicago style (per CMOS 8.159)? A. Except as the first or last word in a title ..., prepositions (and a few other categories) remain lowercase in titles in Chicago style—and in most other styles... |
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| FAQ Item Headlines and Titles of Works Q. If the words of a book title are lowercased, do you...uppercase them in the bibliography? The CMOS standard for capitalizing the words of a book title in the..., do you retain the original way of capitalizing (or not) the title? Or do you change it? A. We... |
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| FAQ Item Headlines and Titles of Works Q. If our publication follows your style of italicizing the... titles of most works (e.g., books), what would you recommend we do in cases when that title must...less limiting your choices for styling titles in headlines to (1) using single quotation marks, (2... |
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| FAQ Item Headlines and Titles of Works Q. Some years ago my advisor in college drummed into my head...that the titles of tables appear above the table, and titles of figures should go below the figure.... Can you verify this? Thanks. A. Partly. Chicago style puts the table title at the top (please see... |
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