Book Titles In Mla

Notice that the title of the book is italicized.

Book titles in mla. The chicago manual of style. A story of race and inheritance. If there is a subtitle separate it from the main title with a colon and a space.

In fact most style guides including mla and chicago style require book titles to be italicized not underlined. In mla style book titles appear in italics with all major words capitalized. Dissertations and master s theses may be used as sources whether published or not.

How to format a book title in mla style. 16th ed u of chicago p 2016. Author name s title italicized and publication date.

For both mla and apa you need to capitalize names of persons and historical places and events in titles. 8th ed modern language association of. Italicize the title of a self contained whole e g.

The sea and civilization is a great history book written by lincoln paine. Both apa and mla formats do not require capitalizing articles and prepositions in the title. Italicize book titles in the text of your paper.

Ideally how you write a book title in an essay varies a little bit biased in the style of your teacher s instructions. In mla style source titles appear either in italics or in quotation marks. Let s begin by looking at a standard citation for a book in mla format.