Re: Capitalization of Titles

Subject: Re: Capitalization of Titles
From: Miark <miark -at- MIJENIX -dot- COM>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 09:29:36 -0500

> As Bill Burns observed, it's called down-style capitalization in
> which only the first words of titles and subtitles are
> capitalized, along with proper nouns. In addition to APA and
> others, the 14th edition of the _CMOS_ now uses it as an option
> for titles in lists of references (chapter 16) but not for
> titles in text.

Does anyone know why?

> Along with other redesign elements in the new _Technical
> communication_, I adopted the down style, and extended it to
> titles in text for the sake of consistency.

If you use "consistency" to break the norm of capitalizing text titles,
why not just break the new norm (for the same reason) and leave
ref list titles capitalized?

> Sorry to be the cause of Jason's cognitive dissonance and Kim
> Keegan's annoyance.

And my long nights of sleepless tossing and turning :-)

ike with an M.

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