You may notice that our own in-house style is a modification of AP style. As for capitalization, you only capitalize after the colon if it’s the start of at least one complete clause or a proper noun. American Psychological Association (APA) styleĪPA only allows you to use a colon after a complete introductory clause, i.e, a preceding part that’s a complete sentence in and of itself. You shouldn’t use a colon in MLA if it introduces an example or an illustration that can instead be introduced with the help of phrases like, for example, that is, or namely.
#USE OF A COLOL MANUAL#
The Chicago Manual of Style allows similar use as the AP, except they capitalize the first letter after the colon differently. Notice how neither of the elements in the list are capitalized because they aren’t the start of a complete sentence or proper nouns. “The two most common adrenaline responses are: This sentence can also be written in the form of a bulleted list according to AP style. Take for example, “The two most common adrenaline responses are: fight and flight.” The word after the colon is capitalized if it’s the start of at least one complete sentence. Associated Press (AP)ĪP style allows you to use a colon after a sentence fragment. One of the biggest challenges of the colon is that different style guides use them differently. However, this isn’t the only convention according to which colons are used. Most commonly, a colon follows an independent clause and tells the reader that what follows is for emphasis or explanation. Probably we're all familiar with the two equally sized vertical dots that is the colon. It’s a punctuation mark of direction and illustration. The colon is used to show readers that two ideas in a sentence are closely related.
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