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Subject:Capitalization of Titles From:"George F. Hayhoe" <george -at- GHAYHOE -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 30 Sep 1997 09:09:18 -0400
Jason Willebeek-LeMair wrote:
<<I was reading the current issue of Technical Communication and
finally noticed something that has been bothering me. In the
editor's blob, he referred to the journal as "Technical
communication" rather than "Technical Communication" [note the
capitalization].>>
As Bill Burns observed, it's called down-style capitalization in
which only the first words of titles and subtitles are
capitalized, along with proper nouns. In addition to APA and
others, the 14th edition of the _CMOS_ now uses it as an option
for titles in lists of references (chapter 16) but not for
titles in text.
Along with other redesign elements in the new _Technical
communication_, I adopted the down style, and extended it to
titles in text for the sake of consistency.
Sorry to be the cause of Jason's cognitive dissonance and Kim
Keegan's annoyance.
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