Casing and Accents

3.20. Non-standard Capitalization. Titles should not be in all capitals, all lowercase, or random casing.

3.21. English Title Casing. English titles should be in title case format and follow the casing conventions as outlined below. In addition, for English, words before and after a dash (-), slash (/), or colon (:) must be capitalized.

This section applies to titles in English only. For general cases not addressed in this guide, refer to The Chicago Manual of Style.

The following words must be in lowercase, with a few exceptions:

• a, an, and, as, but, for, from, nor, of, or, so, the, to, and yet.

• Prepositions of four letters or fewer (at, by, for, from, in, into, of, off, on, onto, out, over, to, up, and with), except when the word is part of a verb phrase or is used as another part of speech (such as an adverb, adjective, noun, or verb).

Examples:

• In the Still of the Night

• (You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman

• To Be, or Not to Be

• The One and Only

• God Willing & the Creek Don't Rise

• Some Kind of Trouble

• Love: And a Million Other Things

• Journey: Greatest Hits

• I Need a Doctor

• Just the Way You Are

• Waiting for the End

• The Ballad of Mona Lisa

• Lost in a Pair of Eyes

• I Got The - Single

• The Love I’m Searching For

3.22. Accents and Characters. Supported languages must include all accents. For a list of supported languages, see Language Codes in the iTunes Package Music Specification.

Examples:

• Hôtel d’Angleterre

• Révérence

• Kärlek är ett brev skickat tusen gånger

• Max Gazzè

• L’uomo più furbo

• Les plus belles chansons françaises

• Un monstre à Paris ! (du film « Un monstre à Paris »)

• Vài Lần Đón Đưa

For German names and titles, all characters common in German orthography must be used (for example, Ä ä, Ö ö, Ü ü, ß). Do not use digraphs.