When To Put Book Titles In Quotes

Individual poems and short stories.

When to put book titles in quotes. 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. As a general rule don t put quotation marks around the titles of books newspapers films or magazines. 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.

Set the title off from the rest of the writing with italic or underlining. Quotation marks enclose titles of smaller works or parts of a whole. Put the title in quotation marks.

Title of the book author last name year. Cases where quotation marks are used for titles include. Instead put those titles in italics.

We were required to read edgar allan poe s short story the tell tale heart. In general you should italicize the titles of long works like books movies or record albums. For example if you were referring to an unfinished manuscript or a phd dissertation you would put the title in quote marks.

The basic format for an in text citation is. Shorter works such as poems articles short stories songs and chapter titles are enclosed in quotation marks. That s about as far as many people can remember.

In this case you d put the title of the specific books in quotation marks but you d keep the title of the collection in italics. It is also common to use quote marks for unpublished writing regardless of length. Poems articles book chapters songs t v.