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> I've run into a question regarding capitalization that I can't seem to
> find a definitive answer to.
[snip]
The definitive answer is: IT DEPENDS. Typographic conventions vary wildly
from journal to journal (and I assume from publisher to publisher). Your
preference is probably as valid as anyone else's, as long as you're not
working under the constraints of a particular style guide. If you are,
then someone else has made a decision, saving you the trouble.
Or, as I used to mutter when trying to remember whether to abbreviate
"Figures" as "Figs." (with the period, for American Institute of Physics
journals) or "Figs" (no period, for _Nuclear Fusion_), "A foolish
consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
Bonnie Nestor
mnj -at- ornl -dot- gov
DISCLAIMER: I work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, for Lockheed Martin Energy
Systems, which is under contract to the U.S. Department of Energy -- but I
don't speak for any of them, and they return the favor.
