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24.1 titles and section headings Both for
titles and section headings, your choice will depend on your journal’s style. Use capital letters (uppercase letters) for all words in the main title of a document except for the words below, unless they are the first word
a and
the •
it •
and all prepositions (
•
by, from, of etc)
2. Alternatively, just use uppercase for the
first letter of the first word, and the rest in lowercase. Section headings tend to follow this format.
3. Do not use a period (.) at the end of a title.
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24.2 days, months, countries, nationalities, natural languages 1. Days, months, countries, nationalities and languages all have an initial capital letter.
2. Be careful with the use of
north(ern), southern, east(ern) and
west(ern). These only require initial capitalization when these are official regions shown on a map or atlas. For example, North Korea and South Korea are two separate nations.
3. When you want to refer to a
geographical area of a country, then you can use two forms, e.g.
southern France, the south of France. Note that in both cases there is no initial capitalization.
4. The following generally have initial capitalization
the West, the Middle East, the Far East . You can write either
the northern hemisphere or
the Northern Hemisphere (likewise with
southern ).
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