What Is the Title Capitalization Tool?
The Title Capitalization Tool is a simple tool that ensures your titles, headlines, and headings are properly capitalized according to common style guides such as AP and Chicago. Use it for blog and academic articles and for titles of books, movies, songs, plays, and more.
How Does the Title Capitalization Tool Work?
- Type or paste your heading into the box.
- Click a capitalization style (AP, APA, Chicago, Wikipedia, simple, or sentence-level) to see the result.
- Click Copy to copy your capitalized heading to the clipboard.
Title Capitalization Rules for Common Styles
Different style guides capitalize headings slightly differently, so it's important to use a consistent style for your content. Our converter supports the most common capitalization styles: APA, AP, Chicago, and Wikipedia. Here's how they work.
American Psychological Association (APA)
APA style is mainly used for scholarly articles. APA capitalizes the first and last word and most important words in a title but keeps short connecting words lowercase.
Examples: "Born to Run", "Breakfast With George", "Fixing and Maintaining Your Broken-Down Mower"
Associated Press (AP)
AP style is widely used in journalism. Short connecting words in titles are usually lowercase, but "to" is often capitalized when it's part of an infinitive.
Examples: "Born To Run", "Breakfast With George", "Fixing and Maintaining Your Broken-Down Mower"
Chicago Manual of Style (Chicago)
Chicago style is commonly used in book publishing and academic work. For titles, Chicago capitalizes most important words but keeps prepositions and short connectors lowercase. "To" is usually lowercase, even in infinitives.
Examples: "Born to Run", "Breakfast with George", "Fixing and Maintaining Your Broken-down Mower"
Wikipedia (Wiki)
The Wikipedia Manual of Style gives guidelines for writing and editing articles on Wikipedia to ensure consistency and clarity. Wikipedia style uses sentence case for article titles, which means only the first word and any proper nouns are capitalized. Section headings within articles follow the same rule.
Examples: "Born to run", "Breakfast with George", "Fixing and maintaining your broken-down mower"
Simple
This style capitalizes every word without exceptions.
Examples: "Born To Run", "Breakfast With George", "Fixing And Maintaining Your Broken-Down Mower"
Sentence case
This style capitalizes only the first word of the sentence and proper nouns.
Examples: "Born to run", "Breakfast with George", "Fixing and maintaining your broken-down mower"
Why Should You Use the Title Capitalization Tool?
The converter makes editing simpler and helps you publish a more consistent and professional-looking document easily. With our converter, you can focus on creating high-quality content rather than worrying about title case rules.
You can also use our Readability Checker to check the accessibility of your whole document.
Disclaimer
The titles provided here may not always be 100% accurate. We aim for consistency and correctness, but some variations may occur due to exceptions and guideline complexity. Refer to the relevant style guides for precise information. By using this tool, you agree that we are not responsible for any inaccuracies that may arise.
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