Book Title In Quotes Or Italics

Shorter works such as poems articles short stories songs and chapter titles are enclosed in quotation marks.

Book title in quotes or italics. 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. Additionally when the word the is part of a title you do not italicize it. 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.

We were required to read edgar allan poe s short story the tell tale heart. 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. 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.

Titles of full works like books or newspapers should be italicized.