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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.
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.
In English and most other languages with upper- and lower-case letterforms, the main elements in proper names are usually capitalized, though there is not quite a one-to-one relationship between fixed use of capital letters (as opposed to incidental capitalization, such as at the start of a sentence) and a text string being a proper name.
The Chicago Manual of Style recommends that the titles of English-language artistic works (plays, novels, essays, paintings, etc.) capitalize the first word and the last word in the title. [28] Additionally, most other words within a title are capitalized as well; articles and coordinating conjunctions are not capitalized. [28]
The Associated Press style guide agrees with the lower case. "Capitalize titles preceding and attached to a name, but use lower case if the title follows a name or stands by itself."71.2O2.86.94 —Preceding undated comment added 21:56, 16 August 2010 (UTC).
Alternatively, it could be possible that Trump simply doesn't know the conventions of English capitalization, which generally dictate that only proper nouns and the first word of a sentence get ...
But in the sentence excerpt "Ford was sworn in as the 38th president of the United States", president is not part of a title, but is a common name for the office. This is in fact analogous to "king of France" (which is the correct capitalization), for the title is "King", as in "King Louis XIV of France".