NYT Style is a journalism headline convention, while MLA Style is an academic citation standard. MLA lowercases more words, including short prepositions.
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 converterMLA Style capitalizes all principal words while lowercasing articles, prepositions, and coordinating conjunctions unless they open or close a title. It follows the Modern Language Association Handbook.
MLA Style is required for papers in English literature, film studies, and other humanities disciplines at most universities. It is the most common format for undergraduate academic writing.
Open MLA 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.
MLA Style is required for papers in English literature, film studies, and other humanities disciplines at most universities. It is the most common format for undergraduate academic writing.
Verbs are always capitalized, including short ones like is and are. The rules closely resemble Chicago Style for most practical purposes.
Choose NYT Style for news headlines and journalism.
Choose MLA Style for humanities papers and citations formatted according to the Modern Language Association Handbook.
The two styles reflect different professional cultures. Journalists follow NYT Style, and humanities scholars follow MLA Style.