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When you're writing a title, you're confronted with a shocking number of formatting options.

How you decide to handle capitalization is up to you.

It's a style choice.

All the major style guides make recommendations, though.

So now we'll talk about which title capitalization style is right for you.

Here are four common styles that I've seen in use.

One, capitalize the first word of the title, the last word of the title,

and all nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, subordinating conjunctions,

and a few conjunctions.

Prepositions are only capitalized if they're used adjectively or adverbially.

For example, you'd capitalize the word up in a title that read,

squiggly looked up a word, but not in a title that read,

squiggly walked up the mountain.

That's the short version of the formatting recommended by the Chicago Manual of Style.

Two, capitalize the first word of the title, the last word of the title,

and all principal words.

That's essentially the same parts of speech I just listed,

noun, verbs, and so on.

And all the words longer than three letters.

That's the style currently recommended by the associated press.

So you can see one of the major differences between Chicago and AP style

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