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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 ...
Overview: Titles should be capitalized when attached to an individual's name, or where the position/office is a globally unique title that is the subject itself, and the term is the actual title or conventional translation thereof (not a description or rewording). Titles should not be capitalized when being used generically.
APA style (also known as APA format) is a writing style and format for academic documents such as scholarly journal articles and books. It is commonly used for citing sources within the field of behavioral and social sciences , including sociology, education, nursing, criminal justice, anthropology, and psychology.
For titles, APA says "Capitalize the first word of the title/heading and of any subtitle/subheading". [ 2 ] Chicago Manual of Style says, "In headlines or chapter titles or other display type, it’s normal to cap after a colon, even if the title or heading is in sentence case (see CMOS 8.158) and whether or not the part after the colon is a ...
A similar example is a list of corporate officers, with capitalized titles for courtesy reasons. Another example is in political presentations, the capitalized titles adding gravity. But for everyday stuff such as encyclopedia articles, CMOS is firm about writing Donald Trump, president of the United States, with lower-case
The "job titles in my field must be capitalized by convention" pseudo-rule is one of the most frequent, and was one of the specialized-style fallacies that inspired that essay to begin with. I'm thus inclined to support always using lower-case for job titles (in the broadest sense), except when doing so produces an ambiguity that may confuse ...
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Sure. Same rule, but people get it wrong often, so might as well reinforce it. Especially if the WP:SSF is involved ("US Government Job Titles are always Officially capitalized", "Marine Corps ranks are always capitalize because they're Marines!", etc., etc.). — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ ʌ ⱷ҅ ᴥ ⱷ ʌ ≼ 03:44, 23 March 2016 (UTC)