1. Capitalize the names and initials of people, titles of respect, and abbreviations of titles.
2. Capitalize the names of groups or teams of people.
3. Capitalize names of specific days of the week, months, holidays, and their abbreviations.
4. Capitalize names of streets, cities, states, countries, continents, rivers, lakes, oceans, buildings, ships, and submarines.
5. Capitalize the first, last, and all important words in titles of stories, poems, and books. Underline (or italicize) the title of a book. Place quotation marks around a story or poem.
6. Capitalize the names of God, names for the Bible, and the books of the Bible.