Capitalise table of contents title with tocloft

Question

Simple question, but I can't put the answer together through googleing. I want to capitalize the table of contents TITLE in my LaTeX document. Nothing else. I'm using the tocloft package and various links I've read through suggest renewing the \cfttoctitlefont command, but I haven't had much luck.

Answer 1

If you only want to capitalize the ToC title and not to use a different name, the following works:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{tocloft}

\renewcommand{\cfttoctitlefont}{\normalfont\Large\bfseries\MakeUppercase}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\section{foo}

\end{document}

Answer 2

The following example works:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[titles]{tocloft}
\renewcommand{\contentsname}{TABLE OF CONTENTS}
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\tableofcontents
\mainmatter
\chapter{A}
\end{document}

Replace TABLE OF CONTENTS with what you want. If you're using babel, then a different way must be used:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[titles]{tocloft}
\addto\captionsenglish{%
  \renewcommand{\contentsname}{TABLE OF CONTENTS}%
}
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\tableofcontents
\mainmatter
\chapter{A}
\end{document}

Use \captions<language> for the language you're actually having as the main one.

The titles option to tocloft avoids that the package acts on the way titles for table of contents and "lists of" are managed.