courtesy titles: Except in very formal communications and obituaries, courtesy titles such as Mr., Mrs., Ms., and Dr. are not used.
professional and academic titles: Professional and academic titles are capitalized when they immediately precede names and are used as part of the names. Dean Jeanne DuBois said . Associate Professor Hans Ringger said .
Titles are lowercased if they follow names or are used to help describe or identify people further. Jill Johnson, professor of history, . Well-known professor of history, Jill Johnson, .
Also:
Instructor in, not instructor of
Professor emeritus, not emeritus professor
Professor of, not professor in-but, professorship in
Research associate in, not research associate of
It is redundant to refer to someone as, for example, Dr. John Doe, Ph.D. For university publications, the preferred style is to use the academic degree designation rather than the courtesy title as in John Doe, Ph.D. and Jane Doe, Ed.D.
When the title includes the specific name of an academic or administrative unit, the name of the unit is capitalized. Sara Steemer, director of the Seaborg Center, . Phillip Powers, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, .
referencing , in body text: First and last names are used when referencing a person for the first time in an article; the last name alone is used on subsequent references.
Use the Rev. before a name on the first reference.
The Honorable should only be used as part of the title when the name is in a formal list, or when addressing an envelope.
vice president: No hyphen.
type style
The following are italicized:
book titles
brochures and pamphlets
movie titles
magazine and periodical titles
newspaper names
long poems
plays
paintings, drawings, sculpture, works of art
long musical compositions
television and radio programs (continuing series)
The following should be in quotation marks:
direct quotes
song titles
short poems
essays
television and radio programs (individual episodes)
short story titles
parts of books (chapters or sections)
conference titles