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However, this should only be done in articles about viruses or virology; mentions of virus taxa in articles about other forms of life should follow the normal rules for italicizing scientific names. Italicize all lower ranks (taxa) : genus (capitalized), subgenus (capitalized), species , subspecies .
From the above it will be clear that many noun phrases containing a proper name (or containing a bare proper noun, in some analyses of certain cases) are not themselves proper names: Tourette['s] syndrome, APA style (on Wikipedia we do not render them over-capitalized Tourette Syndrome or APA Style, though some other writers and publishers do).
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 ...
The section sounds as if we should simply capitalize nouns of professions followed by names of people, which I was told to be incorrect here. Gamingforfun 3 6 5 20:00, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
The current Chicago Manual of Style says "Brand names or names of companies that are spelled with a lowercase initial letter followed by a capital letter (eBay, iPod, iPhone, etc.) need not be capitalized at the beginning of a sentence or heading, though some editors may prefer to reword." It also says "This departure from Chicago’s former ...
In 1929, an APA committee had a seven-page writer's guide published in the Psychological Bulletin. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 1944, a 32-page guide appeared as an article in the same journal. [ 3 ] [ 6 ] The first edition of the APA Publication Manual was published in 1952 as a 61-page supplement to the Psychological Bulletin , [ 7 ] [ 8 ] marking the ...
For example, instead of adding a new section about capital letters, and mentioning scientific names both there and in the section about italics, we should have a section about scientific names where we say that they should be in italics, with the generic name capitalized. Peter Chastain 20:40, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Proper names should be capitalized and this should be included in the Manual of Style. I have to add that I'm sad that it has to be included -- in my native language's Wikipedia it doesn't have to be included in the MoS, as it had already been included in grammar books for seven-year-olds, but judging from the edit wars in some articles ...