Book Titles Capitalization Rules
The capitalization rules for titles of books movies and other works vary a little between style guides.
Book titles capitalization rules. The only two rules are the two rules mentioned above. For example in the novel of mice and men the word of is capitalized even though it is a preposition that is less than five letters. Do not capitalize the title if it is used after a name or instead of a name.
Now it doesn t matter in which category. Apa style uses two types of capitalization for titles of works such as paper titles and headings within works. According to most style guides nouns pronouns verbs adjectives and adverbs are the only words capitalized in titles of books articles and songs.
Prepositions articles and conjunctions aren t capitalized unless they re the first or last word. Capitalize titles when they are used before names unless the title is followed by a comma. Chairman of the board william bly will preside at the conference.
In title case major words are capitalized and most minor words are lowercase. Capitalize the first word of the title. In general you should capitalize the first word all nouns all verbs even short ones like is all adjectives and all proper nouns.
Capitalize the first and last word. Title case and sentence case. The second rule that is important is that all the proper nouns adjectives and adverbs in the title should be capitalized.
In general the following capitalization rules apply across the four styles in title case. The rules for capitalization in titles of articles books papers speeches and other documents can vary according to a particular style guide such as the associated press stylebook the chicago manual of style and mla handbook. However no matter what style guide you use these rules usually hold true.