Capitalization

Follow the capitalization guidelines in The Chicago Manual of Style. Some capitalization guidelines are specific to Splunk documentation:

• Doc components
• Splunk product names, features, and components
• Concepts versus UI terms

Capitalization for emphasis

Don't capitalize all letters in a word to show emphasis.

Doc components

For the following components in Splunk docs, use the capitalization guidelines in the following table. See Capitalization style definitions for nuances in the different styles.

Doc component	Capitalization style
Manual titles	Headline style
Chapter titles	Sentence style
Headings at any level, including headings in tables	Sentence style
List items	Sentence style
Column headings in a table	Sentence style
UI text	See UI text style guidelines.

Splunk product names, features, and components

Capitalize Splunk product names. In general, don't capitalize the names of features or components.

For correct capitalization of Splunk terms, see the Splexicon.

For capitalization of the parts of a Splunk product architecture, such as a heavy forwarder or a search head, see Splunk product terminology.

For capitalization within a Splunk product UI, such as whether to capitalize a button label or dialog box title, see the Capitalization section in the UI text style guidelines.

Concepts versus UI terms

Don't capitalize terms that are normally capitalized as UI terms when they refer to concepts instead. See the following examples:

Concept	UI term
Users with admin privileges can change the server settings.	Select Settings > Server Settings.
Identify the number of indexers in your deployment.	Select Data > Indexers.
Create a custom deep dive to investigate the root cause of a specific issue in your IT environment.	From the ITSI main menu, select Deep Dives.

Capitalization style definitions

The types of capitalization styles referenced are as follows:

Headline style

Capitalize the first and last words, nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and subordinating conjunctions (if, because, as, that, and so on).

Don't capitalize articles (a, an, the), coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, nor), the "to" in an infinitive, and prepositions (with, to, for, in, from).

For hyphenated words, capitalize the first element and the subsequent elements unless they are articles, prepositions, and coordinating conjunctions. The following are examples:

• Cross-Selling Opportunities
• The Command-Line Interface

Sentence style

Capitalize the first word and all proper nouns, such as product names.