MANUAL OF STYLE:CAPITALIZATION
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- attached or used in place of the proper name; familiar names applied to particular persons; orders, (decorations) and the titles accompanying them; titles, without the name, used in direct address; titles without the name when used of existing incumbents of office; and such words as "President," "King," "Czar" ("Tsar"), "Kaiser," "Sultan," and "Pope," standing alone, when referring to the existing rulers or incumbents:
- Queen Victoria, ex-President Cleveland, Rear—Admiral Dewey, United States Commissioner of Education Harris, Dr. Davis; Timothy Dwight, D.D., LL.D.; the Prince of Wales, the Marquis of Lorne, His Majesty, His Grace; the Apostle to the Gentiles, "the Father of his Country"; order of the Red Eagle, Knight Commander of the Bath; "Allow me to suggest, Judge . . . ."; the Secretary of the Treasury; the Bishop of London; the Senator; "The President [of the United States] was chosen arbitrator," "the King wore his robes," "the Kaiser’s Moroccan policy," "the Pope’s attitude toward the French Republic."
- But do not capitalize the titles of occupants of actually existing offices, when following the name (see 49); when standing alone, without name (with the exceptions noted above, and see 49); or when, followed by the name, they are preceded by the article "the":
- McKinley, president of the United States; B. L. Gildersleeve, professor of Greek (See 49); Ferdinand W. Peck, commissioner-general to the Paris Exposition; the emperor of Germany (meaning other than the existing emperor),
