University of Tasmania, Australia

The term 'capitalisation' refers to the initial letter of a word being a capital (upper case) letter. 'Full capitalisation' refers to the whole word being in capital letters.

In general, the use of capitals reduces readability so use minimal capitalisation with only the beginning of sentences and the initial letter of proper nouns in capitals, e.g.

• 'University' when it refers to the University of Tasmania, but Australian universities
• Department of Education, but the department
  
• Bachelor of Arts, Master of Science, but bachelor degrees, master degree, etc
• the School of Political Science, but the University's schools are ...
• Faculty of Education but the faculty, faculties and schools
  
• Indigenous or Aboriginal peoples, but in other contexts use lower case, e.g. indigenous plants
• the Tasmanian Government, Australian Government or Commonwealth Government (when referring to a particular government) but lower case elsewhere
• State of Tasmania, State Government, State legislation, but 'the course is available statewide’
• Australia Day, Good Friday, Christmas Day, and the names of the weekdays
• titles of publications have the first letter of the words capitalised except for 'a', 'the', prepositions and conjunctions, e.g. Davis RP, Open to Talent, University of Tasmania, 1990
• ‘campus’ is lower case when used in a generic sense or when describing a location, e.g.  on a university campus or at the Launceston campus
• summer, winter, autumn and spring are lower case but days of the week are upper case, e.g. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

Also refer to: Headings and Names, titles and academic qualifications.