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Text Case Converter

Convert text into every case at once: title case in the APA, AP, Chicago, MLA, Bluebook, AMA and NYT styles, sentence case, upper, lower, camelCase, snake_case, kebab-case and more, each with its own copy button.

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Title case

The major style guides disagree on which small words stay lowercase. Pick the style the publication asks for.

Title CaseUses the word list below

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APAAPA Style, 7th edition

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APAssociated Press Stylebook

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ChicagoChicago Manual of Style

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MLAMLA Handbook

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BluebookThe Bluebook, rule 8

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AMAAMA Manual of Style

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NYTNew York Times style

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Sentence caseFirst word of each sentence

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Other cases

UPPERCASE

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lowercase

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Capitalized Case

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camelCase

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PascalCase

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snake_case

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CONSTANT_CASE

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kebab-case

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dot.case

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Train-Case

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aLtErNaTiNg cAsE

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iNVERSE cASE

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Words not to capitalize

These words stay lowercase in the Title Case variant above, unless they start or end the title. Uncheck one to capitalize it, or add your own. The published styles use their own fixed lists.

About the Text Case Converter

This tool converts your text into every common case at the same time. Type or paste once and read off the result you need, from proper title case in seven published styles to sentence case, uppercase, lowercase and the developer cases like camelCase and snake_case. Every variant has its own copy button.

The title case section follows the real style guides, because they disagree. Chicago lowercases every preposition while APA capitalizes any word of four letters or more, so 'running with the wind' comes out differently in each. Pick the style the publication or class asks for instead of guessing.

What you can do

  • Convert a headline to APA, AP, Chicago, MLA, Bluebook, AMA or New York Times title case.
  • Convert text to sentence case, uppercase or lowercase.
  • Convert text to camelCase, PascalCase, snake_case, CONSTANT_CASE, kebab-case, dot.case or Train-Case.
  • Fix an all caps text back to normal capitalization.
  • Choose which small words your own title case keeps lowercase.

How to use the Text Case Converter

  1. 1Type or paste your text at the top.
  2. 2Read the live results, grouped into title cases and other cases.
  3. 3Click Copy on the variant you want.
  4. 4For your own Title Case, adjust the word list at the bottom. Checked words stay lowercase unless they start or end the title.

The title case styles, briefly

APA is the style of the American Psychological Association, used across psychology and much of academia. It capitalizes every word of four letters or more and lowercases shorter articles, conjunctions and prepositions.

AP is the Associated Press style used by most newsrooms. In practice it works like APA for titles: words of four letters or more are capitalized, short function words are not.

Chicago follows The Chicago Manual of Style, the standard for book publishing. It lowercases articles, the conjunctions and, but, for, or and nor, and every preposition no matter how long, so 'through' and 'between' stay lowercase.

MLA is the Modern Language Association style used in the humanities. Like Chicago it lowercases all prepositions, and it also lowercases all seven coordinating conjunctions, including so and yet.

Bluebook is the citation manual for US legal writing. Its rule 8 lowercases articles, conjunctions and prepositions of four or fewer letters, so 'with' stays lowercase but 'between' is capitalized.

AMA is the American Medical Association style used in medical journals. It lowercases articles, coordinating conjunctions and prepositions of three or fewer letters.

NYT follows The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage, which keeps a fixed list of short words lowercase, including 'vs.' in headlines.

Sentence case is not a title style but sits at the end of the section because it answers the same question. It capitalizes only the first word of each sentence and the pronoun I, the way most European publications set their headlines.

Every style capitalizes the first and last word of a title and the first word after a colon. Words with their own capitals, like iPhone or NASA, are left alone unless the whole input arrives in all caps.

Your own title case

The Title Case variant at the top of the section is the configurable one. The word list at the bottom of the page decides which words it keeps lowercase, and it starts with the usual suspects: articles, coordinating conjunctions and short prepositions. Uncheck a word to capitalize it again, or add your own words, for example a brand name that must never be capitalized. Your list is remembered for next time.

Developer cases drop punctuation

camelCase, snake_case and the other identifier cases are meant for variable and file names, so they split your text into words, drop the punctuation and join the words back together. They also split on existing case boundaries, turning 'XMLHttpRequest' into 'xml_http_request'. The prose cases above them keep your punctuation and line breaks exactly as typed.