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Capitalize only the first letter of the first word, letters in acronyms, and the first letter of proper nouns. All other letters are in lower case. Thus: "Funding of projects," not "Funding of Projects." Don't restate the article title or a higher level heading. For example, the article Greta Garbo has a section called "Later career". "Her ...
Australian Government Style Manual by Digital Transformation Agency. 7th ed. Style Manual: For Authors, Editors and Printers by Snooks & Co for the Department of Finance and Administration. 6th ed. ISBN 0701636483. The Australian Handbook for Writers and Editors by Margaret McKenzie. 4th ed. ISBN 9781921606496.
Using title case (= capitalizing almost every word) in headings merely because it is a heading looks ugly, destroys valuable information about names (proper nouns) that might occur as part of headings, and is not common practice among many English publishers. Therefore, Wikipedia does not do it.
The 2003 sixth edition changed the title to MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. The seventh edition's main changes from the sixth edition were "no longer recogniz[ing] a default medium and instead call[ing] for listing the medium of publication [whether Print or Web or CD] in every entry in the list of works cited", recommending ...
Wikipedia article titles and section headings use sentence case, not title case; see Wikipedia:Article titles and § Section headings. For capitalization of list items, see § Bulleted and numbered lists. Other points concerning capitalization are summarized below. Full information can be found at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters.
For synonym lists, either use templates like {{Species list}} which automatically use small text for authorities, or wrap the authority information as described above.) Derived uses in non-biological contexts are not italicized: The largest carnivore in family Tyrannosauridae was T. rex itself , but Unicorn was an album by the band T. Rex .
Heading names: Many different headings are used, depending on the subject matter. "Works" is preferred when the list includes items that are not written publications (e.g. music, films, paintings, choreography, or architectural designs), or if multiple types of works are included.
Many of the considerations at WP:Manual of Style § Section headings also apply to description list terms; even though description list terms are not headings, they act like headings in some ways. In at least one regard however, they are not: description list term wikitext ( ; ) should not be used to subdivide large sections .