Glossary entry

Italian term or phrase:

«Le radici storiche dell’iniziazione cristiana e il suo significato»

English translation:

Yes

Added to glossary by Cedric Randolph
Jun 30, 2016 00:08
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Italian term

«Le radici storiche dell’iniziazione cristiana e il suo significato»

Italian to English Art/Literary Religion capitalisation question
My question is whether I should capitalize all the nouns and verbs, after the manner of English style usage regarding book and article titles. The above title is that of a speech given at a conference of the Ordo Virginum (Order of Consecrated Virgins) in Italy. I'm translating a book, which lists in the first section all of these confereces (18 so far), and all of the speeches give at each conference. So there are a lot of these titles of speeches (usually followed by the name of the speaker in parentheses) in the text. What I'm been doing so far is to capitalize the speech, as is done with article and books titles, like this:

"The Historical Roots of the Christian Initiation and Its Meaning".

But I'm not 100% sure of this choice. Does anyone know about this? Moreover, when translating the title of a book or article, do you do the same (capitalize the nouns and verbs, as if it were an English book or article)?

Thank you,

Peter
Proposed translations (English)
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Change log

Jul 1, 2016 19:04: Cedric Randolph Created KOG entry

Discussion

Peter Waymel (asker) Jul 1, 2016:
Chicago Manual of Style 16th ed. says capitalize "Capitalization of titles of works - general principles: Titles mentioned or
cited in text or notes are usually capitalized headline-style (see 8.157)." (headline style is that which I was using/referring to in the example in my question above". So there's the answer, at least for publishers who use CMS.
Peter Waymel (asker) Jul 1, 2016:
Thank you! I have been asked by the publisher to refer to the Chicago Manual of Style 16th ed. for other matters... so I'll check what it says on this issue. Thanks for the input. I will likely go with capitalizing the nouns, verbs, etc. Thanks again!
Cedric Randolph Jul 1, 2016:
New Guidelines New APA guidelines at this sight.
http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2012/03/how-to-capitalize-...
Lara Barnett Jun 30, 2016:
Capitalize I would. This could be seen as a stylistic choice, but surely a title needs capitalisation to distinguish it from the body text - a title is a title IMO, and has always been written in caps.
texjax DDS PhD Jun 30, 2016:
. In my experience it's up to the publisher. Just ask what style they prefer and follow the guidelines. Buon lavoro

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depending on location, you use Sentence Case as does Italian very often, Otherwise, such as when listing, then Title Case is used.
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