8: Names, Terms, and Titles of Works
- Proper nouns and adjectives
- Italics and quotation marks for titles and other terms
- Personal names—additional resources
- Capitalization of personal names
- Names with particles or prefixes
- Screen names and other aliases
- Hyphenated and extended names
- French names
- German and Portuguese names
- Italian names
- Dutch names
- Spanish names
- Russian names
- Hungarian names
- Arabic names
- Chinese names
- Japanese names
- Korean names
- Other Asian names
- Titles and offices—the general rule
- Exceptions to the general rule for titles and offices
- Titles used in apposition
- Civil titles
- Titles of sovereigns and other rulers
- Military titles
- Quasi-military titles
- Religious titles
- Corporate and organizational titles
- Academic titles
- Other academic designations
- Descriptive titles
- Civic and academic honors
- Titles of nobility
- Honorifics
- Epithets (or nicknames) and bynames
- Epithets as names of characters
- Kinship names and the like
- Personifications
- Ethnic, national, and regional groups and associated adjectives
- Compound nationalities
- Socioeconomic status
- Sexual orientation and gender identity or expression
- Generation
- Ability status or disability
- Names of places—additional resources
- Continents, countries, cities, oceans, and such
- Points of the compass
- Regions of the world and national and local regions
- Popular place-names
- Urban areas
- Real versus metaphorical names
- Political divisions—capitalization
- Governmental entities
- Mountains, rivers, and the like
- Descriptive terms for geographic entities
- Non-English terms for geographic entities
- Thoroughfares and the like
- Buildings and monuments
- Rooms, offices, and such
- Non-English names for places and structures
- Adjectives derived from personal names
- Words derived from proper nouns
- Legislative and deliberative bodies
- Administrative bodies
- Judicial bodies
- Government entities that are lowercased
- Organizations, parties, alliances, and so forth
- Adherents of unofficial political groups and movements
- Institutions and companies—capitalization
- Corporate names with unusual capitalization
- Associations, unions, and the like
- Numerical designations for periods
- Descriptive designations for periods
- Traditional period names
- Cultural periods
- Historical events and programs
- Speeches
- Meteorological and other natural phenomena
- Sporting events
- Movements and styles—capitalization
- Formal names of acts, treaties, and so forth
- Descriptive terms for pending legislation
- Legal cases mentioned in text
- Capitalization for names of awards and prizes
- Formal oaths and pledges
- Academic subjects
- Courses of study
- Lectures
- Days of the week, months, and seasons
- Holidays
- Time and time zones
- Deities
- Alternative names
- Prophets and the like
- Platonic ideas
- Pronouns referring to religious figures
- Major religions
- Denominations, sects, orders, and religious movements
- “Church” as institution
- Generic versus religious terms
- Religious jurisdictions
- Places of worship
- Councils, synods, and the like
- Scriptures
- Other names and versions for bibles
- Books of the Bible
- Sections of the Bible
- Prayers, creeds, and such
- Religious events and concepts
- Heaven, hell, and so on
- Services and rites
- Objects
- Armies, battalions, and such
- Wars and revolutions
- Battles and campaigns
- Medals and awards
- Ships and other named vessels
- Other vehicle names
- Pronouns referring to vessels
- Scientific style—additional resources
- Genus and specific epithet
- Abbreviation of genus name
- Subspecies and varieties
- Unspecified species and varieties
- Author names
- Plant hybrids
- Higher divisions
- English derivatives
- Plants and animals—additional resources
- Domestic animals and horticultural categories
- Horticultural cultivars
- Genetic nomenclature—additional resources
- Genes
- Enzymes
- Geological terms—additional resources
- Formal versus generic geological terms
- Stratigraphy
- Astronomical terms—additional resources
- Celestial bodies
- Catalog names for celestial objects
- “Earth”
- “Sun” and “moon”
- Descriptive terms
- Medical terms—additional resources
- Diseases, procedures, and such
- Infections
- Drugs
- Physical and chemical terms—additional resources
- Laws and theories
- Chemical names and symbols
- Mass number
- Radiations
- Metric units
- Trademarks
- Brand names or trademarks with an initial lowercase letter
- Names for applications, operating systems, and devices
- Treatment of titles in text and notes—overview
- Capitalization of titles of works—general principles
- Principles and examples of sentence case
- Principles of title case
- Examples of title case
- Hyphenated compounds in title case
- Titles containing quotations
- Italics versus quotation marks for titles
- When italics are not an option
- Subtitle capitalization
- Permissible changes to titles
- Titles in relation to surrounding text
- Double titles connected by “or”
- Treatment of book and periodical titles
- An initial “a,” “an,” or “the” in book titles
- An initial “the” in periodical titles
- “Magazine” and other descriptive terms
- Periodical titles in awards, buildings, and so forth
- Italicized terms and titles within titles
- Title not interchangeable with subject
- Titles of multivolume works
- Titles of series and editions
- Articles, stories, chapters, and so on
- Collected works
- Terms like “foreword,” “preface,” and so on
- Numbered chapters, parts, and so on
- Titles of poems
- Poems referred to by first line
- Titles of plays
- Divisions of plays or poems
- Titles of folktales, fables, nursery rhymes, and the like
- Titles of pamphlets and reports
- Titles of forms and standards
- Titles of unpublished works
- Titles for movies, television, radio, and podcasts
- Titles of video games
- Titles of websites and web pages
- News sites and blogs
- Musical works—additional resources
- Operas, songs, and the like
- Instrumental works
- Opus numbers
- Recordings
- Paintings, photographs, statues, and such
- Maps
- Cartoons
- Memes
- Exhibitions and such