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APA Style is a “down” style, meaning that words are lowercase unless there is specific guidance to capitalize them such as words beginning a sentence; proper nouns and trade names; job titles and positions; diseases, disorders, therapies, theories, and related terms; titles of works and headings within works; titles of tests and measures; nouns followed by numerals or letters; names of ...
Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization.In English, capitalization is primarily needed for proper names, acronyms, and for the first letter of a sentence. [a] Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia.
The simplest de-capitalization rule is to capitalize if, and only if, the title is directly used as a title in front of a name, so "President Nixon" but everywhere else "president". Such a rule could actually be followed. Peter coxhead ( talk) 14:38, 26 February 2018 (UTC) Thank you for replying here, Peter coxhead.
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. This convention often also applies within the article ...
If you search for "capitalization job titles" you'll find plenty of US examples, including the Chicago Manual of Style, which use the same rules as are set out in the MOS. Peter coxhead 13:54, 31 March 2016 (UTC) Looking at the Project Page here, we have one external link to "Chicago Style Q&A on caps".
A private-sector job title would be capitalized when reported as a literal string, for an unusual title, e.g. "Jan Bearcat, in the role of Accessibility Evangelist at Snorkelweasel Web Development, said of WCAG 2 compliance ...", but this should be avoided, because obscure titles like this are meaningless to most readers, and simply beg for an ...
There appears to be a discrepancy between the advice given in the last sentence of Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters#Composition titles ("Capitalize parenthetical phrases in titles as if they were separate titles") and that given in point 2.5 of Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Music#Capitalization ("Titles that include parentheses should be ...
CareerBuilder. Updated July 14, 2016 at 8:25 PM. politically correct job titles. By Debra Auerbach. Order a sandwich at Subway, and you'll be assisted by one of their " sandwich artists." When ...