Titles preceded by former, late, etc., are also lower case: former prime minister Joe Clark, late president Richard Nixon. Use lower case when the title follows the name, stands alone or is plural: Glenn Thibeault, minister of energy, the prime minister, premiers Kathleen Wynne and Philippe Couillard. GovernmentĬapitalize formal government titles when they precede a name: Premier Kathleen Wynne, President Donald Trump, Minister of Energy Glenn Thibeault, Mayor Cam Guthrie. No italics for titles of academic papers or conferences/lectures/courses. Long sacred works such as the Bible and the Qur’an are not italicized. Titles of academic papers and journal articles, book chapters, theses, courses, lectures and seminars, etc., are not italicized but are enclosed in quotation marks. Also scientific names of organisms ( Homo sapiens, E. Also names of ships, spacecraft, aircraft and trains. Italicize titles of books, plays, movies, magazines, journals, newspapers, CDs, songs, symphonies, artworks, video games, and TV and radio shows. Titles of Creative Worksįor titles of books, plays, movies, songs, academic papers, journal articles, theses, lectures and book chapters, follow capitalization rules as above for headlines when writing principal words and prepositions and conjunctions. AddressesĬapitalize street, road, etc., in addresses, but use lower case with plurals: She lives on College Avenue and works at Edinburgh and Stone roads. Phone ExtensionsĪbbreviate and capitalize extension in front of a phone number, and include commas before and after the extension: Call 51, Ext. If a title contains hyphenated words, capitalize both words: New Book Tells Story of History-Filled Guelph Guitar (not: History-filled). If a title is in French, only the first word is capitalized. ![]() Capitalize these short words (for, to, at, in) only when they appear as the first or last word in a title or when they appear immediately after a colon or semicolon. In a headline, don’t capitalize articles (a, an, the) or prepositions and conjunctions of fewer than four letters: Food for Thought. ![]() Headline: Food From Thought Team Receives Funding. Body copy: The Food from Thought team has received new funding. Also capitalize prepositions and conjunctions of four letters or more in headlines: With, Into, From.įood from Thought: Capitalize Food From Thought in a headline about the U of G project, but use lower case “from” in body copy and captions in reference to this specific project. ![]() Capitalize even small verbs and nouns: Is, Are, Be, It, etc. In headlines, capitalize principal words (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and the first and last words of the title). ![]() Sentence case: Prof discovers ways to help heart failure patients. For external communications written for an audience outside the University such as the media, use title case (capitalize only initial letters, everything else lower case) in headlines: Prof Discovers Ways to Help Heart Failure Patients.įor internal communications written for the University community, use either sentence case (capitalize only the initial letter of the first word) or title case, but be consistent.
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