- All titles are capitalised in head-line style (see below).
- All titles are italicised. The exceptions are
- names of works of antiquity whose creators are unknown which are usually set in normal font. For example:
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Known creators
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Unknown creators
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Michelangelo's David
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The Venus de Milo
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Hogarth's series of drawings The Rake's Progress
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The Pyramid of Khafre
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- Single articles in a magazine, episodes of a television show, chapters in a book, unpublished manuscripts etc.
These are set in normal type, capitalised as titles and enclosed in quotation marks. For example:
"A Canal Boat Journey, 1857," an anonymous manuscript in the Library of Congress...
The article called "Days off in Kabul" in a recent Photofile issue illustrated...
"Casualties," an episode in The Fortunes of War...
Head-line style
- Capitalise the first and last word in titles and subtitles
- Capitalise all other major words (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and some conjunctions -see note 4)
- Lowercase the, a, an, to, and as
- Lowercase conjunctions (and, but, for, or and nor)
- Lowercase parts of a proper name that is lowercased in normal text (von, de etc)
- Lowercase the second part of a species name, even if it is the last word of a title eg Acipenser fulvencens
For example:
Tired but Happy
Ten Hectares per Capital, but Landownership and Per Capita Income
Four Theories concerning the Gospel according to Matthew
Sitting on the Floor in an Empty Room
Examples taken from the Chicago Manual of Style. 16th ed.
