标题中单词首字母大写规则

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依据不同标准，标题首字母大写的部分规则可能会不同。常用的标准有 Associated Press Stylebook (AP),  Chicago Manual of Style, MLA style 等。本文依据 MLA Handbook (8th Edition) 归纳一些基本规则，实际应用请参照具体要求的标准。

首字母需大写的部分

第一个单词

最后一个单词

主要单词

Nouns 名词

The Flowers of Europe

Pronouns 代词

Save Our Children

Some Like It Hot

Verbs 动词

America Watches Television

What Is Literature?

Adjectives 形容词

The Ugly Duckling

Adverbs 副词

Only Slightly Corrupt

Go Down, Moses

从属连词

从属连词（subordinating conjunction）连接主句（main/independent clause）和从句（subordinate/dependent clause）。常用的从属连词有：

after	even though	now that	unless
although	how	once	until
as	if	provided (that)	when
as far as	inasmuch as	since	whenever
as soon as	in case (that)	so that	where
as if	in order (that)	supposing (that)	wherever
as though	insofar as	than	whether
because	in that	that	while
before	lest	though	why
even if	no matter how	till

https://webapps.towson.edu/ows/conjunctions.htm

One If by Land

首字母不要大写的部分

冠词

冠词（article）有 a, an, the。

Under the Bamboo Tree

介词

介词（preposition）如 against, as, between, in, of, to, as 等，无论单词长短，根据 MLA Style 一律小写。

The Merchant of Venice

对比：

Life As I Find It (as 作从属连词)
The Artist as Critic (as 作介词)

并列连词

并列连词（coordinating conjunctions）连接两个需要表示同等重要的词（words）、词组（phrases）或分句（clauses），表示并列、选择、转折或因果关系。并列连词共有7个：for, and, nor, but, or, yet and so，简记作 FANBOYS。

Romeo and Juliet

引导动词不定式的“To”

How to Play Chess

Hyphenated Words 带连词符的单词

参照以上规则首字母大/小写

标点符号后的单词

标点符号后的内容具备独立含义时，首字母大写

Storytelling and Mythmaking: Images from Film and Literature

Whose Music? A Sociology of Musical Language

不具备独立含义时，首字母不大写

Marcel Proust: Archetypal Music — an Exercise in Transcendence

句子首字母大写风格

如同一个英语句子，仅第一个单词首字母大写。这是一种非正式用法，常见于报纸和网络。如：

Budget wedding invitations

Best technology blogs

专有名词/形容词首字母仍需大写。如：

Top 10 things to do in Paris

Hiking at the Grand Canyon

 

References:

The Modern Language Association of America, 2016. MLA Handbook Eighth Edition. New York: Modern Language Association of America.

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