Book Titles In Quotes Or Italics Or Underlined

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Book titles in quotes or italics or underlined. Shorter works such as poems articles short stories songs and chapter titles are enclosed in quotation marks. Chapter titles not chapter numbers. Titles of short works like poems articles short stories or chapters should be put in quotation marks.

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. However here is what the chicago manual of style says. Prior to computers people were taught to underline titles of books and plays and to surround chapters articles songs and other shorter works in quotation marks.

Quotation marks when the work is part of a stand alone work. Articles newspaper or magazine. 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.

Revised on january 24 2020. Stand alone works include books legal cases movies magazines newspapers albums and plays. We use italics for game of thrones because it refers to an entire tv series.

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. With some exceptions most style books tell us to use italics when we write the title of a work that stands alone as a single entity. A book film journal or website.

The general rule is to use italics on book titles album titles and publication names for a web document or when you are using a word processing tool. Books and book length poems journals newspapers magazines and other periodicals. If it is something handwritten you should underline it instead of using italics.