| Comment | There are scores of threads on this topic in the forum archive (Suche in allen Foren), but unfortunately it's hard to find any of the ones that actually have a very informative, complete answer to the question. Sometimes it's Groß- und Kleinschreibung, sometimes Klein- und Großschreibung, sometimes Titel, or Titeln, sometimes Überschriften, sometimes capitalization, sometimes capitalisation ...
The expression 'title case' may be BE or printers' jargon or something, but I've never heard it and I'm not sure most people would recognize it. The traditional designations I'm familiar with are up style (= title case?) and down style. Up style, which capitalizes not just nouns and verbs but all words except articles, coordinating conjunctions, and short prepositions, is more common in AE, in the humanities, and in main titles. Down style, which capitalizes only the first word (and proper nouns), is more common in BE, in the sciences, and in subtitles (the part after the colon).
Whatever mix you choose, it must be consistent within your own paper, regardless of the capitalization in the original (unless it's a writer for whom capitalization is creative, like e. e. cummings). Find a style guide for your field (MLA for most humanities, others for other academic fields) and follow it. You'll need it for other things like notes anyway. |
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