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You'll find a full list of compact TOCs on the page Wikipedia:Template messages/Compact tables of contents (shortcut: WP:CTOC). Don't use semicolons as pseudo-headings. Historically, semicolons at the start of the line were used to create the appearance of a heading without it showing in the table of contents.
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.
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.
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.
You may be looking for: Wikipedia:Article titles § Deciding on an article title (WP:CONSISTENT), describing the consistency criterion in article titling policy . Wikipedia:Consistency in article titles (WP:TITLECON), explanatory supplement to the above policy page, on naming articles along consistent patterns, especially within a category
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.
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A style guide is a set of standards for the writing, formatting, and design of documents. [1] A book-length style guide is often called a style manual or a manual of style (MoS or MOS).