Tasnif Style Guide — Page 87
CHAPTER 7: CAPITALIZATION 87 • I don't want to hear anyone say 'It's ridiculous' until you've read the whole story. When the quote consists of single words or phrases that are not complete sentences, they are not capitalized: He had a tendency to murmur 'well' when the words didn't come to mind. Publication Titles, Subtitles, & Headings Capitalize all key words in titles, headings, and subtitles. This gen- erally entails capitalizing all nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and pronouns, but not prepositions, articles, and conjunctions, unless they appear as the first word in the title or heading. There is flexi- bility in this guidance to optimize effect and points of emphasis; for example, longer prepositions may be upper-cased for effect, and pronouns and adverbs may be left lower case to minimize loss of emphasis on other key words. For long titles, capitalization may be minimized and almost eliminated to the extent it's applied in normal prose. Spelling titles of works should mirror their original orthog- raphy. In other words, US spelling should not be replaced with British, and original signs—such as ampersands—and abbrevia- tions should be preserved. When the is part of a book title, it is capitalized and italicized;