Automatic Capitalization of sectioning headings?

sectsty provides easy hooks into sectional units. \MakeUppercase turns the title into UPPERCASE, while \titlecap (from titlecaps) turns it into Title Case.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{sectsty}% http://ctan.org/pkg/sectsty
\usepackage{titlecaps}% http://ctan.org/pkg/titlecaps
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\sectionfont{\MakeUppercase}
\section{This should be in upper case}
It is!
\sectionfont{\titlecap}
\section{This should be in title case}
It is!
\end{document}

Another solution, using any additional package, it to modify the \section, \subsection etc. macros. It can be done fairly easily with the following

\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\section}{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}%
             {-3.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
             {2.3ex \@plus .2ex}%
             {\normalfont\Large\scshape\bfseries}}

\renewcommand{\subsection}{\@startsection{subsection}{2}{\z@}%
             {-3.25ex\@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
             {1.5ex \@plus .2ex}%
             {\normalfont\large\scshape\bfseries}}

\renewcommand{\subsubsection}{\@startsection{subsubsection}{2}{\z@}%
             {-3.25ex\@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
             {1.5ex \@plus .2ex}%
             {\normalfont\normalsize\scshape\bfseries}}
\makeatother

The title of the section, subection and subsubsection will then be in small caps.

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Capitalization

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