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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 ...
I would put more trust in a non-government style guide. Note that the AP style guide says that "president" should only be capitalized as a formal title when preceding the name or names. It doesn't say to capitalize following the name, or the title standing alone. Binksternet 13:17, 29 December 2018 (UTC) User:Binksternet Yes.
Seasons (e.g. winter) and plant/animal names (e.g. bald eagle) are not capitalized. Exceptions include scientific names (Felis catus) and proper nouns occurring as part of a name. Names of scriptures are capitalized (e.g. Bible and Qur'an, but not biblical).
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.
If you search for "capitalization job titles" you'll find plenty of US examples, including the Chicago Manual of Style, which use the same rules as are set out in the MOS. Peter coxhead 13:54, 31 March 2016 (UTC) Looking at the Project Page here, we have one external link to "Chicago Style Q&A on caps".
The rules for sentences and sentence-case titles are different. Both APA and Chicago Manual of Style support capitalizing a subheading (text after a colon) using sentence case. For titles, APA says "Capitalize the first word of the title/heading and of any subtitle/subheading". [2]
Job titles have evolved over time for a variety of reasons. Some companies have infused creativity into their job titles as a way to elevate otherwise generic-sounding positions. Others have doled ...
In those cases, the page title is an unmodified job title, so capitalization of each word is permitted from MOS:JOBTITLES. "Vice presidency" isn't a job title, so only MOS:HEADCAPS applies. I would expect to see pages titled "Vice President of the United States" and "Vice presidency of Kamala Harris".