Title Capitalization Tool

Your Ultimate Guide to Perfect Headlines

Our title capitalization tool is designed to help you instantly format your titles, headlines, and captions according to professional style guides. Whether you're writing academic papers, news articles, blog posts, or social media updates, our tool ensures your text is always perfectly capitalized.

How the Tool Works

1. Select Your Style: Choose your preferred capitalization style (e.g., AP, Chicago, APA, MLA, Title Case, Sentence Case) from the dropdown menu at the top of the page.
2. Enter Your Text: Simply type or paste your title into the main text area.
3. Instant Conversion: As you type, your text will automatically transform to match the selected style.
4. Copy with Ease: Use the copy icon located in the bottom-right corner of the text field to quickly grab your formatted title.
5. Clear & Reset: Need a fresh start? Click the clear button (circular arrow) in the top-right corner of the text field to reset the input.

Understanding Capitalization Styles

Different contexts require different capitalization rules. Our tool supports the most widely used professional and academic styles to ensure your titles are always appropriate:  

AP Style (Associated Press)

Primarily used in journalism and news publications. Generally, capitalize all words four letters or longer, including prepositions and conjunctions. Always capitalize the first and last words of a title.

Chicago Style (The Chicago Manual of Style)

Often used in books, magazines, and non-scholarly publications. Capitalize all major words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns). Lowercase articles ("a," "an," "the"), coordinating conjunctions (e.g., "and," "but," "or"), and prepositions (regardless of length).

APA Style (American Psychological Association)

Commonly used in social sciences and academic research. Capitalize all major words, including those four letters or longer. Always capitalize the first and last words of a title. Shorter prepositions and conjunctions (under four letters) are typically lowercased.

MLA Style (Modern Language Association)

Widely used in the humanities for academic writing. Capitalize all major words (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and subordinating conjunctions). Lowercase articles, prepositions (regardless of length), and coordinating conjunctions.

Title Case

This style capitalizes the first letter of every word in a title. While simple, it doesn't adhere to specific style guide rules about prepositions, articles, or conjunctions. It's often used for general titles where strict adherence to a specific guide isn't necessary.

Sentence Case

Only the first word of the title (and any proper nouns) is capitalized, similar to how a regular sentence is written. This is often used for headings or subheadings in documents where a less formal or more direct tone is desired.

Beyond Capitalization: Text Statistics & Case Conversions

Our tool goes beyond just capitalization, offering additional utilities to help you manage and refine your text:

Text Statistics

Gain insights into your content with real-time statistics, helping you meet length requirements or simply understand your text's composition:

• Characters: Total character count.
• Characters (no spaces): Character count excluding spaces.
• Words: Total word count.
• Sentences: Number of sentences.
• Reading Time: An estimated time to read your text (based on average reading speeds).

Case Conversions

Need to quickly change your text to a different format? The tool provides instant conversions for various common casing needs:

• UPPERCASE: Transforms all letters to capital.
• lowercase: Converts all letters to small.
• Sentence case: Capitalizes only the first letter of the first word (and proper nouns).
• camelCase: Formats the text where the first word is lowercase, and the first letter of subsequent words is capitalized.
• kebab-case: Converts words to be separated by hyphens (e.g., "kebab-case").
• snake_case: Converts words to be separated by underscores (e.g., "snake_case").

Why Proper Capitalization Matters

Correct title capitalization is crucial for several reasons, impacting both professionalism and clarity:

• Professionalism: It reflects meticulous attention to detail and enhances the overall credibility and authority of your writing.
• Readability: Consistent capitalization improves the visual flow of your text, making titles and headlines easier to read and understand at a glance.
• Adherence to Standards: Following established style guides is often a critical requirement in academic, journalistic, and various professional settings.
• SEO (Search Engine Optimization): Properly formatted titles can improve how search engines interpret and display your content, potentially increasing visibility and click-through rates.

The title capitalization tool simplifies this often complex and rule-heavy task, allowing you to focus on creating compelling content while it handles the intricate capitalization rules.

Check Your Work for Mistakes

Even perfectly capitalized titles can contain other errors. We recommend using a comprehensive writing assistant to check for grammar, spelling, punctuation, and overall clarity in all your writing.

Grammarly is a perfect companion to help you with that. Gone are the days where you have to manually copy your text and paste it into a checking software. With Grammarly, you simply have to turn it on, and it starts checking your written text everywhere you type.

It found a mistake? Simply hover over the highlighted text and accept the suggestion. Don't want it to be active in certain applications? Just exclude the website, an entire application, or pause Grammarly for some time. It's that simple, try it free.