Book Title In Quotes Or Italics
According to the chicago manual of style and the modern language association titles of books and other complete works such as newspapers and magazines should be italicized.
Book title in quotes or italics. Titles of short works like poems articles short stories or chapters should be put in quotation marks. Shorter works such as poems articles short stories songs and chapter titles are enclosed in quotation marks. One exception is when you have a book that is a collection of various novel titles like lord of the rings.
We were required to read edgar allan poe s short story the tell tale heart. Additionally when the word the is part of a title you do not italicize it. So if abiding by either of those guides you d italicize stephen king s the shining just as you would vanity fair and the miami herald and appetite for destruction if your protagonist is a guns n roses fan.
Titles of books that form a larger body of work may be put in quotation marks if the name of the book series is italicized.