View source for Capitalization Rules for Song Titles

''Note: Adapted from [http://www.manythings.org/midi/ Standard MIDI Files on the Net].''

The first and last words are always capitalized, and all except the words listed below are capitalized.

===Lowercase===
These are lower-case, unless they are the first word or last word.

;articles: a, an, the
;conjunctions: and, but, or, nor
;prepositions that are less than five letters long: at, by for, from, in, into, of, off, on, onto, out, over, to, up, with
;as: (only if it is followed by a noun) 

===Prepositions are sometimes capitalized===

*Prepositions are capitalized when they are the first or last word.
*Prepositions that are part of two-word "phrasal verbs" (Come On, Hold On, etc....) are capitalized.
*Prepositions that are over four letters long. (across, after, among, beyond, ...) 

===These short words are capitalized===

*also, be, if, than, that, thus, when
*as (if it is followed by a verb) 

==List of some "Phrasal Verbs"==
These are some phrases in which the preposition needs to be capitalized:
*Beat Up
*Blow Out
*Break Down
*Break Into
*Break Up
*Bring Up
*Call Off
*Call On
*Call Up
*Carry On
*Come Back
*Come Down
*Come On
*Come Out
*Come Over
*Do Over
*Fill In
*Fill Out
*Find Out
*Get Along
*Get Around
*Get By
*Get Over
*Get Through
*Get Up
*Give Back
*Give Up
*Go Along
*Go Away
*Go On
*Go Over
*Hand In
*Hang Up
*Hold On
*Keep On
*Keep Up
*Leave Out
*Let Down
*Look For
*Look Into
*Look Like
*Look Out
*Look Over
*Look Up
*Make Out
*Make Up
*Pack Up
*Pass Out
*Pick Out
*Pick Up
*Put Away
*Put Off
*Put On
*Put Out
*Put Up
*Roll Over
*Run Into
*Run Out
*Run Over
*Show Up
*Take After
*Take Back
*Take Off
*Take On
*Take Up
*Talk Back
*Talk Over
*Throw Away
*Try On
*Turn Down
*Turn In
*Turn Off
*Turn On
*Use Up
*Wait On

==External links==
*[http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Capitalize/Capitalize.pm Text::Capitalize] &mdash; [[Perl]] module
*[[wikipedia:Capitalization]]
*[http://hubpages.com/hub/Grammar_Mishaps__Capitalization_Rules Grammar Mishaps: Capitalization Rules]

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