Their diaries capture the reality of being disabled in Britain today: the slights, broken systems and misunderstandings that stop disabled people from living as should be their right. Top image: Life Is Beautiful, by Linnaea Mallette (public domain).The Guardian asked seven people to document their everyday experiences of disability throughout September – including Cobb, 19, who has the connective tissue disorder Marfan syndrome.
Ditto for “Yesterday,” a word used as a word-which, according to CMOS 7.63, would normally be set in either italics or quotation marks. However, as the cover and title page of the book uses neither, we’ve decided to leave the Y alone.
In an italic title, however, either roman type or quotation marks would be the only viable Chicago-style options (see CMOS 8.173). ‡ According to CMOS 7.64, letters used as letters are normally italicized. In sentence case, only the first word would be capitalized: Life is beautiful-or La vita è bella in the original Italian, where sentence case is the norm (see CMOS 11.6). Note also that each instance of the title in the Wikipedia entry is otherwise in title case, with a capital L and capital B. Apparently, it’s natural to want to lowercase “is” in a title. † Interestingly, Wikipedia’s entry for Life Is Beautiful (as of Augspecifically, the page for the movie directed by and starring Roberto Benigni) mentions or cites that title twenty-eight times (up to and including the bibliography) in thirteen of those instances-or nearly half-the word “is” is spelled with a small i. * Note that the subheads in this post are in title case, but sentence case is also an option for subheads, provided it’s consistently applied across a document (see also CMOS 2.18 and 8.158). In a graphical setting like a book cover or a movie poster, bigger isn’t necessarily better. But it’s a humble little word that doesn’t always like to stand out. “Is” is a verb, so unless it’s hiding behind a contraction, it should always be capitalized in titles mentioned in the text or in a Chicago-style source citation. But our publications tend to be scholarly in nature in more creative contexts, rules are made to be broken. In Grafton’s title-as in each of the titles mentioned in this post-“is” plays more of a supporting than a leading role.Ī lowercase “is” like the one on the Grafton cover would be unlikely to make it past Chicago’s editorial team. The connecting words “is for” are both lowercase (in Chicago and many other styles, lowercase would be the norm for the preposition “for”), which allows the more important elements in the title to stand out. Consider also the cover for Sue Grafton’s novel Y Is for Yesterday (G. P. That works well: “Life” and “Beautiful” are the words that matter most. Notice how the movie’s title is in caps and small caps except for the word “is,” which is in all small caps-and in a smaller font than any of the other letters in the title: “Is” is spelled out in the title of the 1997 movie Life Is Beautiful (a translation from the original Italian), so it gets a capital I in Chicago style.† But the word is de-emphasized in the poster art for the theatrical release. Without the contraction, and particularly with a capital I, the emphasis would shift toward the verb: It Is a Wonderful Life. Take the iconic movie title It’s a Wonderful Life (1946). When it is used, it’s sometimes contracted, which is a good way of minimizing its impact. Nor does “is” appear all that frequently in titles, considering its ubiquity in ordinary prose. So it’s an easy word to forget to capitalize. “Is” is a mere linking verb, the textual equivalent of an equals sign-and it’s only two letters long. But there are some nuances to consider, including some graphical contexts where it may be appropriate to leave “is” lowercase. When such a title is mentioned in ordinary text or in a source citation (see also CMOS 14.87), there are generally no exceptions. This includes the word “is,” as in the song title “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do” (Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield, 1962). Most recommend a variation of title case, or what CMOS has traditionally referred to as headline style.Īnd though there are some differences among the major styles-for example, AP and APA capitalize any word of four letters or more-they all specify an initial capital for verbs, regardless of length. A defining feature of any style is how it capitalizes words in the titles of books, articles, and other works.
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