Capitalization

Titles of people

• Capitalize a person’s title only when it’s used directly before a name.
  • Example.:
    • Sanjiva Weerawarana is the co-founder and chief executive officer at WSO
    • WSO2 Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Sanjiva Weerawarana

Titles of content

• Main titles use uppercase for the first letter of all words.

  • Do not capitalize
    • Articles (a, an, and the)
    • Prepositions of three or fewer letters (of, in, and for)
    • Most conjunctions of three or fewer letters (as, and, or, and but)
    • The “to” in the infinitive form (e.g. to Write).
  • Example:
    • Deploy and Test Prototype APIs
    • Webinar: Why Does Modular Middleware Matter?
    • The Process of Mediators Within WSO2 ESB - The Mediator Catalog

• Any other headings use sentence style (i.e., only the first word in uppercase).

  • Example:
    • Table of contents

• Maintain branded lowercase proper nouns and other industry standards.

  • Example:
    • eBay
    • iPhone
    • PaaS

• Hyphenated compounds in titles

  • Capitalize the first word, and capitalize all subsequent words in the compound except for
    • articles (a,an, and the).
    • prepositions of three or fewer letters (like to and of).
    • coordinating conjunctions (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so).

Ask yourself: If this word weren't in a hyphenated compound, would I capitalize it? If the answer is yes, capitalize it as part of the hyphenated compound, too. * Example:
* Platform-as-a-Service * On-Premises * Eclipse-Based * Cloud-Enabled

Company and product names

• Follow an organization’s conventions as to how it capitalizes and punctuates its names.
• When in doubt, look at some of the organization’s press releases or at its copyright page if it has one.
  • Example:
    • WSO2
    • WSO2 API Manager
    • eBay
    • MuleSoft
    • Apache Synapse
    • GitHub