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Punctuating Titles: Italics or “Quotes”?
When to Use Italics/underlining
Note: When you are handwriting, indicate italics by underlining the title. Never do both italics and underlining.
Titles of Books: The Great Gatsby Plays: A Streetcar Named Desire Very Long Poems: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Periodicals, Magazines and Newspapers: The
Washington Post ; The Economist ; Newsweek.
When to Use Italics/underlining
Titles of Works of Art: Starry Night; Mona Lisa, The Thinker
Movies: Star Trek Radio and TV Series: Breaking Bad; Deadliest
Catch Video Games: Call of Duty Albums/Long Musical Recordings: The Dark Side
of the Moon Comic Strips: Peanuts; Doonsbury
When to Use Italics/underlining
The General Rule: Put the title in italics (or underline it if
handwriting) if it is a long/big work and/or if the work can be broken down into smaller parts (ie. A TV series can be broken into individual episodes; a newspaper is broken up into individual articles.)
When to Use “Quotes” Around a Title
Never use quotes with italics/underlines. It’s always one or the other.
Titles of short stories: “The Minister’s Black Veil,” “To Build a Fire”
Poems: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
When to Use “Quotes” Around a Title
Essays: “A Stranger in the Village” Articles and Other Parts of Publication: “In Rust
Belt, A Teenager’s Climb From Poverty” Songs: “Money” Episodes of TV or Radio Series: “Long Sleepless
Nights” (an episode of Deadliest Catch) Chapters and Other Parts in a Book: “Epilogue.”
When to Use “Quotes” Around a Title
The general rule: Use quotation marks to enclose titles of short
works (often works that are part of a larger collection).
Elements of Literature -- “The Minister’s Black Veil”
The Washington Post -- “USPS Plans to End Saturday Mail”
Deadliest Catch -- “Long Sleepless Nights”
The Wasteland And Other Poems -- “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
The Dark Side of the Moon -- “Money”