NYT Style capitalizes most prepositions, while Chicago Style lowercases short prepositions of four letters or fewer. Chicago is more rule-bound and is used for book publishing rather than journalism.
NYT Style capitalizes all major words including most prepositions, lowercasing only articles and coordinating conjunctions. It produces headlines with more capitals than AP Style.
NYT Style suits publications that model their editorial standards after prestige American newspapers. It works well as a middle ground between AP Style and full title case.
Open NYT Style converterChicago Style capitalizes all major words and long prepositions while lowercasing short prepositions of four letters or fewer, articles, and coordinating conjunctions. It is the dominant style for American book publishing.
Chicago Style is required for most manuscripts submitted to book publishers, literary journals, and academic presses. Scholars in the humanities default to it.
Open Chicago Style converterNYT Style suits publications that model their editorial standards after prestige American newspapers. It works well as a middle ground between AP Style and full title case.
Only articles and coordinating conjunctions are consistently lowercased. Prepositions are generally capitalized, unlike in AP Style.
Chicago Style is required for most manuscripts submitted to book publishers, literary journals, and academic presses. Scholars in the humanities default to it.
Prepositions of five or more letters are capitalized. Short prepositions like in, on, at, by, and of remain lowercase.
Choose NYT Style for journalism and news publications that want a bold, highly capitalized headline style.
Choose Chicago Style for books, academic publications, and manuscripts submitted to publishers.
In practice, many short titles look identical in both styles. The differences emerge with short prepositions like of, in, and at, which Chicago Style lowercases but NYT Style capitalizes.