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Title case or headline case is a style of capitalization used for rendering the titles of published works or works of art in English. When using title case, all words are capitalized, except for minor words (typically articles , short prepositions , and some conjunctions ) that are not the first or last word of the title.
Regarding cities, AP Stylebook says: "Capitalize city if part of a proper name, an integral part of an official name, or a regularly used nickname: Kansas City, New York City, Windy City, City of Light, Fun City. Lowercase elsewhere: a Texas city; the city government; the city Board of Education; and all city of phrases: the city of Boston."
"State" should be capitalized when referring to the government of the state or the official name of the state, but otherwise not. -Rrius 18:55, 15 April 2010 (UTC) My question was intended to get a better idea of whether there is a need for the addition. I agree that "state" should not be capitalized in "state of _____".
Generally acronyms and initialisms are capitalized, e.g., "NASA" or "SOS". Sometimes, a minor word such as a preposition is not capitalized within the acronym, such as "WoW" for "World of Warcraft". In some British English style guides, only the initial letter of an acronym is capitalized if the acronym is read as a word, e.g., "Nasa" or ...
There have been very similar topics discussed in October 2022, March 2022, and August 2021, mostly around capitalizing after numbers, and in all of them it was made clear that section headings, as article titles, use sentence case, in which only the first character of a sentence is capitalized (and proper nouns, of course), meaning that neither ...
Do not capitalize the second or subsequent words in an article title, unless the title is a proper name. For multiword page titles, one should leave the second and subsequent words in lowercase unless the title phrase is a proper name that would always occur capitalized , even mid-sentence.
The decision to spell 'Black' with a capital 'B' and lowercase 'white' in a racial context is well-intended, but it may be doing more harm than good.
In Victorian times and well into the 20th century, newspaper headlines were typically capitalized like book titles. Today they are usually capitalized like Wikipedia article titles, i.e. only the first word is capitalized unless it would always be capitalized. Also, things like seasons, species of animals, chess pieces, and playing cards that ...