Titles

Always double-check source titles for spelling and capitalization.

Set source titles apart in your text with the appropriate punctuation.

Do not punctuate the title of your own paper or the titles of legal documents or religious texts (such as books of the Bible).

Underline (or italicize) the names of

• books

• films

• journals

• plays

• magazines

• paintings

• newspapers

• sculpture

• tv or radio programs

• long poems published alone (Paradise Lost)

Use “quotation marks” to punctuate titles of

• short stories

• journal articles

• essays

• magazine articles

• songs

• newspaper articles (the headline is the title)

• poems

• book chapters