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for bibliography-style citations, and sentence style for reference list–style citations. (Thereare some exceptions; see chapters 17 and 19 respectively.)Use headline-style capitalization for the title of your paper and the titles of any parts orchapters within it unless your discipline prefers sentence style (see A.1.5).HEADLINE-STYLE CAPITALIZATION. Headline-style capitalization is intended to distinguishtitles clearly from surrounding text. In this style, capitalize the first letter of the first and lastwords of the title and subtitle and all other words, except as follows:Do not capitalize articles (a, an, the), coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, nor, for,so, yet), or the words to and as unless such a word is the first or last word in the title orsubtitle.Do not capitalize prepositions (of, in, at, above, under, and so forth) unless they areemphasized (through in A River Runs Through It) or used as adverbs (up in Look Up),adjectives (on in The On Button), or conjunctions (before in Look Before You Leap).Do not capitalize the second part (or subsequent parts) of a hyphenated compound unlessit is a proper noun or adjective. (Remember to follow the original hyphenation of titleseven if it differs from the principles discussed in 20.3.)Do not capitalize parts of proper nouns that are normally in lowercase, as described in22.1.1 (van in Ludwig van Beethoven).The Economic Effects of the Civil War in the Mid-Atlantic StatesTo Have and to Hold: A Twenty-first-century View of MarriageAll That Is True: The Life of Vincent van Gogh, 1853–90Four Readings of the Gospel according to MatthewSelf-government and the Re-establishment of a New World OrderGlobal Warming: What We Are Doing about It TodayStill Life with OrangesE-flat ConcertoAlthough many short words are lowercase in this style, length does not determinecapitalization. You must capitalize short verbs (is, are), adjectives (new), personal pronouns(it, we), and relative pronouns (that), because they are not among the exceptions listed above.Use lowercase for long prepositions (according) since they are among the exceptions.Two kinds of titles should not be presented in headline style even if you use it for all othertitles:For titles in languages other than English, use sentence-style capitalization (see below).For titles of works published in the eighteenth century or earlier, retain the originalcapitalization (and spelling), except that words spelled out in all capital letters should be