Book Titles In Papers

A creative title is the first step to your successful essay.

Book titles in papers. This can be anything from other papers to interviews to movies or even books. Obviously a headline must be composed correctly. For example breakfast at tiffany s by truman capote to the lighthouse by virginia woolf a river runs through it and other stories by norman maclean lord of the flies by william gerald golding etc.

One exception is when you have a book that is a collection of various novel titles like lord of the rings. Additionally when the word the is part of a title you do not italicize it. In contrast shorter articles essays or chapters within the book are enclosed in quotation marks.

If you include the author s name in your prose there is no need to repeat it in the in text citation. It is enough to copy the title. 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.

Instead italicize the titles. Still i wouldn t recommend underlining a book s title. Ideally how you write a book title in an essay varies a little bit biased in the style of your teacher s instructions.

Designate a book title as separate from the rest of your text by placing the complete title and subtitle if it has one in italics. Each word in the title of the book should be written with a capitalized letter except prepositions like at of in on etc. Lots of books that have made the top 200 seem like blatant spam by self published authors whose work probably wasn t good enough for a real publisher to accept.

If you are using mla style you should not underline book titles. It is like a name for a book. 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.