Top Capitalization Use capitalization consistently and in accordance with your intended meaning. Users look to capitalization for clues as to whether they are reading about something specific to the system or something in general. Full Capitalization DO Write acronyms in complete, capital letters. See Acronyms . Do NOT Use full capitals to emphasize sentences or paragraphs.
Text written in all caps is difficult to read.
Also, with the advent of on-line communication, text written in full caps has come to mean yelling. Each word in official job department and organizational unit names Each word in official job titles and functional titles Trade names and manufacturers' names Names of nationalities and languages Points of the compass when referring to a region Principal words, including the first and last, when referencing official document titles and headings or titles within documents Short articles, conjunctions, and prepositions are not principal words in titles and should therefore be lowercase. Top Colon Colons cause some of the most common grammatical errors in technical writing. Since the use of colons cannot be avoided, it is important to learn the proper guidelines. The Chicago Manual of Sty le .