TITLES: ITALICS vs. QUOTATION MARKS
Generally, titles of shorter works use quotation marks “... Use italicize for longer works. Ex: “song title” and title of CD.
TITLES/NAMES TO BE ITALICIZED
Books
Journals
Magazines
Pamphlets
Newspapers
Movies
Documentaries
Plays
Musicals
Long Poems
Radio Program
TV Program
Ballet
Dance
Operas
Musical Pieces
Paintings
Sculptures
Ships
Planes
Trains
Musical CD’s
Movie DVD’s
Computer Games
Video Games
Websites
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tax Planning Quarterly
Newsweek
How to Take Your Own Blood Pressure
The Buffalo News
The Other Side of the Mountain
Broken Dreams: Boeing 787
King Charles III
The Lion King
The Odyssey
A Prairie Home Companion
NCIS: New Orleans
Les Sylphides
Rodeo
La Traviata
Rhapsody in Blue
Mona Lisa
Pietà
Titanic
Air Force One
Orient Express
Sounds of Silence
The Jazz Singer
World of Warcraft
Guitar Hero
Citefast
TITLES/NAMES TO BE PUT IN QUOTATION MARKS
Articles
Essays
Book Chapters
Short Stories
Short Poems
Songs
Radio Episodes
TV Episodes
“In-class Tutoring Provides Vital Assistance”
“Notes of a Native Son”
“Legal Issues and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome”
“Why I Live at the P. O.”
“Musée des Beaux Arts”
Can’t Buy Me Love”
“The Tin Box” from Little Orphan Annie
“Soup Nazi” from Seinfeld
TITLES NEEDING CAPITALS BUT NOT ITALICS OR QUOTATIONS MARKS
Music in Number or Key
Sacred Writings
Editions or Societies
Diseases
Acronyms
Conventional Titles
Student’s Paper Titles
Prelude and Fugue in E flat Major
Bible or Koran or Bhagavadgita
Kittredge’s Shakespeare or Anglo-Normal Text Society
Tay-Sachs disease (but not cancer, polio, leukemia, etc.)
FBI, AIDS, NAACP
U.S. Constitution or Declaration of Independence
Role of the Rabbi in Jewish Belief