Note that you always capitalize the first word of the title, even if it is a function word.
Source: Appendix 2 of Great Paragraphs by Folse, Muchmore-Vokoun, & Solomon. |
For example, titles are often not complete sentences. Sometimes they’re noun phrases. With articles:
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
An Introduction to YogaOr sometimes without:
by Annie Besant
Australian Search Party
by Charles Henry Eden
Copyright BasicsSometimes prepositional phrases are used:
US Copyright Office
After the Storm
by T. S. Arthur
Beyond Good and EvilOr just the names of people.
by Friedrich Nietzsche
These can be real people:
David CrockettOr fictional:
by John S. C. Abbott
Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen
Barry Lyndon
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Androcles and the Lion...and sometimes noun phrases that indicate a person:
by G. B. Shaw
Who Spoke NextThey can also be one or more abstract ideas:
by Eliza Lee Follen
Physics and Politics
by Walter Bagehot
Culture and Anarchy
by Matthew Arnold
First and Last ThingsHow about a question?:
by H. G. Wells
Can Such Things Be?They might be poetic "coinages" (made-up words) or may allude (refer) to classic writings:
by Ambrose Bierce
Watersprings
by Arthur Christopher Benson
Few Figs from Thistles
by Edna St. Vincent Millay