I am submitting a Ph.D. thesis fairly soon and my supervisor has flagged my use of capitalisation in "Section" and "Chapter" as possibly incorrect. I have googled about a bit and I see mixed opinions.
So my question is, when writing a computer science Ph.D. thesis, what is the correct way to capitalise "Section", "Chapter", "Appendix", "Figure", "Table", ... ?
For example, what is the correct capitalisation for the following:
- "In Chapter 3, it was shown that..."
- "In the previous Section, a method was presented to..."
- "The graph in Figure 3 shows..."