Capitalize name of document section when used in text sentence?

Question

I file briefs with appellate courts. Each brief has a section called a "Table of Contents" and one called a "Table of Authorities," where the "C" and the "A" are capitalized because those phrases are the titles of those sections.

What if I want to refer to those sections in the text of the brief or in the text of a motion accompanying the brief? Should I capitalize as it is capitalized in the titles of those sections, or treat the phrases as common nouns? E.g.,

"I revised the table of contents in the brief."

Answer 1

You should capitalize those sections since you are referencing a specific table of contents, that is, the one in the brief. Notice how in the previous sentence, as in this one, I was merely writing about tables of content at large, and thus there is no need to change the lettering as I am not referring to a proper noun.

An example might read:

The Table of Contents for this brief includes headers down to the third level and is composed of precedents organized chronologically.