TITLES OF ART, LITERARY, AND MUSICAL WORKS

Albums of music (complete) whether records, tapes, or CDs
 Ballets
 Book titles (except for sacred books such as the Bible, Quran, Torah, which are roman without quotation marks)
 Computer software and CD-ROM and other multimedia product titles (except applications programs such as WordPerfect)
 Epics or long poems
 Lecture series
 Magazines whether print or electronic (initial the in roman, lowercase), National Geographic
 Movies and documentary films
 Newspapers (initial the in roman, lowercase)
 Operas, operettas, oratorios, musical comedies, and symphonies (See also MUSIC TITLES and SYMPHONIES.)
 Plays and stage shows
 Television or radio series (See also TELEVISION (other).)
 Videodiscs
 Videotapes

2. Roman within quotation marks

Articles from books and journals, including NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Chapters of books
Comic strips
Essays
Exhibits
Lectures
Maps (For NGS maps see MAP REFERENCES.)
Online features
Paintings, sculptures, and other works of art
Pamphlets and leaflets
Radio and television episodes within series (See also  TELEVISION (other).)
Short films, cartoons
Short musical compositions–hymns, songs, national anthems, individual selections within albums or tapes (See also MUSIC TITLES and SONGS.)
Skits, short poems, short stories
Speeches
Unpublished manuscripts

3. Translations of titles of books and newspapers remain in the same typeface as the original reference:

Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis–Voyage of Saint Brendan the Abbot
 La Divina Commedia–The Divine Comedy
 Zëri i Popullit (Voice of the People)–the party newspaper

Translations of titles of songs, poems, paintings, and other works that are written in roman and quoted are treated in the same way:

The Israeli national anthem, "Ha-Tikva," or "The Hope."
 Goethe's "Willkommen und Abschied" ("Welcome and Farewell").

It is not necessary to italicize foreign-language titles that are placed within quotation marks.


4. After a possessive immediately preceding a title, omit initial A or The of a title:

            Dickens's Tale of Two Cities, Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.

If a possessive does not immediately precede the title, an article is usually retained:

            In Marco Polo's book, The Description of the World, lower classes are rarely mentioned.


5. An initial article may also be dropped if an adjective and another article precede the title:

            the humorous Midsummer Night's Dream.

6. Ancient or historical manuscripts are capitalized and roman: Madrid Codex.

7. For the name of a photo series or a photographer's long-term project, use Roman, title case, no quotes: 

            Stephen Wilkes's Day to Night series