The new APA manual says it should be capitalized if it starts a sentence.
 They give the example of de Waal:

Correct:
De Waal (1994) concluded the following
Incorrect:
de Waal (1994) concluded the following
(4.14 on p. 101)

Beth Benoit
Granite State College
Plymouth State University
New Hampshire

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Marc Carter <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey, All --
>
> If a proper name like "van de Groot" starts a sentence, do we capitalize
> the v?
>
> It seems wrong to me (that's a proper name and those words are lower-case
> words), but I can't find an exception to the "First word in a complete
> sentence" rule.
>
> Anyone out there feel authoritative on this?  (In the meantime I'm going to
> have the student change the sentence around...
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> m
>
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