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Capitalization, SR5.5

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Heads and titles

Text references to headlines are up-style, no matter the style—all caps, all lowercase, up-style, or down-style—of the actual headline.
      See “Fun Finishes,” opposite.
      For more information, see “The Lowdown on Lighting” on page 24.


For uppercase and lowercase headlines, capitalize all main words (adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, nouns, and verbs). Also capitalize the first and last words in a head. In up-style headlines, other words needn’t be capped when they start a line other than the first line, but they can be capped for design purposes. (See also Covers.)
      Presents with a Personal Twist

      Presents with
      A Personal Twist

      Lighting
      For Less


Lowercase prepositions and conjunctions of four letters or fewer unless they begin a line of a headline.
      for
      from
      into
      like
      out
      with

Capitalize conjunctions and prepositions with more than four letters (about, before, between, through, without).
      All Through the Night

Capitalize that in headlines when used as a pronoun or adjective. Don’t capitalize as a conjunction.

Capitalize prepositions that are a basic part of a verb form.
      Wake Up a Breakfast Room
      Add On a Bump-Out


EXCEPTION: “to” in infinitives.
      to Be
      to Do
      to Go


Capitalize both words of compound terms and hyphenated words.
      Built-Ins for Storage
      Built-In Storage
      Easy-Care Houseplants
      Make-Ahead Meals
      Two-Way Desk
      Good-Looking
      Eye-Catching

Lowercase prepositions and articles in hyphenated multiple-word descriptors.
      Out-of-the-Way Storage

Capitalization, SR5.1
Acronyms, SR5.2
After colons, SR5.3
Directions and regions, SR5.4
Heads and titles, SR5.5
Names, SR5.6
Web sites, SR5.7
Zones, SR5.8

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