If you have a title with a colon in it, section 6.17 of the Publication Manual says to capitalize "the first word after a colon, em dash, or end punctuation in a heading".
Fair enough, but what if the colon (or em dash, or end punctuation) is followed by a number, such as a year? Does the year count as the first word, or do you capitalize the first non-numeric word after the colon?
Guidance wasn't available in any APA 7th edition documentation, but the APA 6th edition blog did provide the answer. The year counts as the first word, so you do not need to capitalize the second word after the colon (assuming that you are using sentence case, as directed for your list of References).
The example given was:
Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft tissue infections: 2014 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
Lee, C. (2016, January 22). Typepad HTML Email No the reverse is not a rule. So you'd write "2014 update". [Comment on the blog post "Title case and sentence case capitalization in APA style"]. APA Style Blog 6th edition archive. https://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2012/03/title-case-and-sentence-case-capitalization-in-apa-style.html
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