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Version 1.1.2 - July, 2008
Capitalization
Academic degrees
When spelled out, degrees are not capitalized unless describing a specific degree.
- bachelor's degree
- master's degree
- doctoral degree
- doctorate
- Mary earned her Master of Philosophy at Tulane.
Departments, offices, committees, Dartmouth College Trustees
Capitalize the formal names of departments, offices, programs, and institutions; do not capitalize informal or incomplete names. Exception: Dartmouth College Board of Trustees are referred to as Trustees in second reference or the Board (Exception: For news releases only, use trustees or board.)
- Department of Earth Sciences, earth sciences department
- Office of Public Affairs, public affairs office, the office
Events
The formal names of special events are capitalized.
- Baccalaureate, Commencement, Convocation, reunion (unless specific: Reunion 2005)
Parts of periodicals
Headlines for articles and stories use initial caps for all major words except for articles and prepositions unless at the beginning or end of the title or when they are more than four letters long.
- The Stock Market Is in an "Up" Cycle
- Going for Broke: Going up the Mountain
NOTE: For news releases, the capitalization convention is for the headline to be in all caps; any subhead or deck is lowercased.
People
Capitalize a title when it immediately precedes a person's name. The title is not capitalized when it follows a name.
- James Wright, president of Dartmouth
President James Wright, the president
- Susan DeBevoise Wright, wife of Dartmouth President James Wright
President Wright and his wife, Susan DeBevoise Wright
- Bruce Duncan, professor of German
Professor Duncan
the professor
- Angeline Andrews, research associate professor
Exceptions: Endowed professorships are capitalized, even when the title follows a name.
- Cleopatra Mathis, Frederick Sessions Beebe '35 Professor in the Art of Writing
Do not use courtesy titles such as “Mr.” or “Ms.” when referring to people, using instead the full name on first reference and last name on subsequent references. Use the full first name and last name form to differentiate between related parties. Exceptions may be made upon specific request from the parties.
Places and directions
Capitalize the word College whenever referring to Dartmouth. (Exception: AP users will use lowercase.) However, do not capitalize school when used alone to refer to Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, or Tuck School of Business. In first reference, use Dartmouth College. Thereafter either the College or Dartmouth is acceptable.
Lowercase north, east, south, and west when they refer to compass directions. When referring to regions or specific place names, capitalize these words.
- North Woods, the Seacoast area
- Upper Valley but Connecticut River valley
Publications, Courses, Works of Art
Titles of all major works, including published books, poems and plays, proceedings, periodicals, and newspapers are capitalized and set in italics. Do not capitalize "the" in the title, unless it is part of the formal name.
- The New York Times is sold at CVS.
- Copies of the Boston Globe are available everywhere.
Capitalize course names when used as formal titles, otherwise lowercase.
- His History of Germany in 1880 course is very popular.
- Julia's course on women's literature is almost over.
Lectures, symposia, conferences, colloquia and other academic presentations are capitalized and set off in quotation marks.
- Her lecture on “Marxism in Reverse” was given last Tuesday.
- “Race Matters in the University of the 21st Century,” a two-day national conference on how issues of race affect ...
Titles of long musical compositions, such as operas or albums, are italicized. Song titles are capitalized and set in quotation marks.
- “Caroline, No” is my favorite song on the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds album.
Titles of paintings and other works of art are capitalized and set in italics; exhibitions are capitalized, but without quotation marks or italics. Capitalize all words in a title that are more than four letters, even prepositions.
- Mona Lisa is one of Leonardo's most famous works.
- "Leonardo Through the Ages" opens in March.
For more information and specific exceptions to capitalization, see Chapter 17, "Documentation II: Specific Content" in the Chicago Manual of Style.
Web and Internet usage
Lower-case all Internet-related uses of this term, except in the case of the formal name “World Wide Web”.
- web site, web page, webmaster; but World Wide Web
But email and intranet remain lowercase. (See also Electronic Publicatons)
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