Using "a" in the title of a scientific paper

Is it OK, to use indefinite article in the title of a paper? Should it be omitted? Or even replaced by the definite article?

Here is the title: "A Fuzzy Event for a Set of Events".

Solution 1:

It depends on the journal. If you have a journal in mind for this article, look at the table of contents.

In what I think is a misguided style decision, Physical Review removes all articles from the beginning of titles (but they are fine later in the title). On the other hand, in the first issue of Annals of Mathematics I looked at, there were three articles beginning with a or an.

Journal article titles are not governed by the same style rules as newspaper article titles; even for Physical Review, an article is fine if it is not the first word.