Capitalization: Diseases, Disorder, Therapies, Theories, and Related Terms
Do not capitalized the:
- Diseases or disorders
- Diabetes
- Leukemia
- Therapies and treatments
- Immunotherapy
- Cataract surgery
- Theories, concepts, hypotheses, principle, models, and statistical procedures
- Associative learning model
- Law of effect
Capitalize:
- Personal names that appear within the name of diseases,
- Disorder, therapies, treatments, theories, concepts, hypotheses,
- Principles, models, and statistical procedures.
- Freudian Theory
- Down syndrome
(Adapted from APA, 2020, pp.166)
The American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association 7th edition
