Titles and Headings
UPDATE: Effective January 18, 2012, our preference for "Web site" will be changed to a preference for "website." (Section 10.2, page 372 in the print.) We will also use "webcast" for "webcam." Caps will be retained on mention of World Wide Web, however. This change was made January 18, 2012.
Capitalize major words in titles, subtitles, and headings of publications, musical compositions, plays (stage and screen), radio and television programs, movies, paintings and other works of art, software programs, websites and weblogs, electronic systems, trademarks, and names of ships, airplanes, spacecraft, awards, corporations, and monuments.
Do not capitalize a coordinating conjunction, an article, or a preposition of 3 or fewer letters, except when it is the first or last word in a title or subtitle. (For more on typeface rules when referring to works of art, see 22.5.4, Typography, Specific Uses of Fonts, Italics, and 8.6.3, Punctuation, Quotation Marks, Titles.)
All My Children |
MetaFilter |
the Cochrane Database |
the Monitor and the Merrimac |
the USS Cole |
My Man Godfrey |
the space shuttle Endeavor |
the New England Journal of Medicine |
The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi |
Oscar |
Lucian Freud’s Girl With a White Dog |
PubMed |
Golden Globe Award |
The Sopranos |
Internet |
Symphony No. 8, “Symphony of a Thousand,” by Gustav Mahler |
the Journal of the American Medical Association |
the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier |
the Kitty Hawk |
Windows |
The Lasker Award |
WordPerfect |
the Lincoln Memorial |
World Wide Web (the Web, website) |
MEDLINE |
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MeSH [Medical Subject Headings] |
Note: The may be dropped from titles if the syntax of the sentence improves without it.