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  1. Italics and Underlining: Titles of Works

    If you have two titles in one sentence (for example, a book title and a chapter title), the title of the larger work should be italicized, and the smaller work should be in quotation marks. See the example below: In Little Women, Beth March dies in Chapter 40, "The Valley of the Shadow.".

  2. Should You Underline Or Italicise Book Titles?

    Italicise or Underline Book Titles: The General Rule. Unless you're following a style guide that specifically tells you otherwise, you should generally italicise book titles. This is the rule you'll find in many style guides, including the Chicago Manual of Style, Harvard referencing style and the Modern Language Association (MLA).

  3. Let's Clear This Up: Should You Underline Or Italicize Book Titles?

    If you have italics as an option, use it. If not, underline. If underlining isn't an option, use asterisks or under-slashes to set off titles. That last one is the way to go when you include a book title in a text message or social media post or comment, where you can't apply any kind of text formatting. Underlining can be problematic with ...

  4. Knowing When To Underline Or Italicize: Your Go-To Guide

    Wrapping Up. Now you know when to underline or italicize, and much more. To wrap up, italics should be used for the titles of longer works such as movies, books, and TV shows, and underlining for handwritten papers. In addition, we hope you've learned the more tricky rules such as question marks and commas, and that you've given some ...

  5. Do You Underline Book Titles?

    The issue is addressed by the top stylebooks, but the answers vary. ( Grammar Rules for Writers .) 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. So if abiding by either of those guides, you'd italicize Stephen King ...

  6. Do You Italicize Book Titles? MLA, Chicago Manual, and APA Rules

    Whether you are writing a book, a business blog, a research paper, or a magazine article, staying true (and consistent) to grammar and style is extremely important. It makes the entire article/ manuscript consistent and reading easy!. But with so many styles and style guides around, losing track is very common. This is especially true when you are writing titles - of books, stories, poems ...

  7. How to Write Book Titles in Your Essays

    As a general rule, you should set titles of longer works in italics, and titles of shorter works go in quotation marks. Longer works include books, journals, TV shows, albums, plays, etc. Here's an example of a book mention: Sense and Sensibility, published in 1811, was Jane Austen's first novel. Shorter works include poems, articles ...

  8. MLA Titles

    Use quotation marks around the title if it is part of a larger work (e.g. a chapter of a book, an article in a journal, or a page on a website). All major words in a title are capitalized. The same format is used in the Works Cited list and in the text itself. Place in quotation marks. Italicize.

  9. Book Titles in Essays: Formatting Rules and Examples

    How to Format a Book Title in an Essay. Long story short, most citation styles agree on using the same format for book titles in essays: capitalized, italicized, and with no underlining or quotation mark (unless you write about a book's chapter or a shorter work like an article, an essay, or a poem within a more extensive work).

  10. Titles: When to Italicize, Underline, or Use Quotation Marks

    When it comes to titles, you can either italicize them or put them in quotation marks. The 7th edition of the MLA Handbook eliminates underlining (underlining is still acceptable when hand-writing papers). Skip to the end of this post to see a note about underlining titles. Keeping the rules for italicizing and using quotation marks straight ...

  11. Italics and Underlining: Titles of Books

    Whereas, in the past, some style guides recommended underlining titles, today most prefer italics or quotation marks. When you're writing something by hand, underline the titles that would normally be italicized. MLA, APA, and Chicago guides agree that the use of italics is appropriate for standard book titles.

  12. Italics and Titles: When to Italicize

    Italics and Titles. The general rule is to use italics on book titles, album titles and publication names for a web document or when you are using a word processing tool. If it is something handwritten you should underline it instead of using italics. Longer works are italicized while shorter works like song titles or an article from a magazine ...

  13. Should Book Titles Be Italicized or Underlined?

    Don't confuse readers by underlining book titles as well. Instead, italicize the titles of published works, and put shorter works in quotation marks. (Unless you're following the AP Style Guide; they don't use italics.) To sum it up, follow the style guide your editor recommends. If he or she doesn't have a style guide, choose one way ...

  14. APA Style

    here are certain things to keep in mind when writing a title according to APA style. Book titles are italicized and written using sentence case (only the first word of a title, subtitle, or proper noun are capitalized). Book chapter titles are written using sentence case and are not italicized.

  15. When Writing: Do You Underline Book Titles? Clear Guidelines

    Underline: When writing by hand or using a typewriter, you should underline book titles. This traditional method is a nod to the pre-digital era and provides visual differentiation for titles. Italicize: In the world of digital and modern publishing, underline has given way to italics. When typing or using a word processor, it is recommended to ...

  16. Use of italics

    When to use italics. In APA Style papers, use italics for the following cases: Mindfulness is defined as "the act of noticing new things, a process that promotes flexible responding to the demands of the environment" (Pagnini et al., 2016, p. 91). American Journal of Nursing, 119 (9), 47-53. Their favorite term of endearment was mon petit ...

  17. When Writing Book Titles: To Underline or Italicize? Expert Advice

    In book publishing, it is common to italicize book titles rather than underline them. This convention helps distinguish titles from other elements and makes them more visually appealing. 4. Clarity and Readability: The main purpose of formatting book titles is to make them stand out and be easily recognizable to readers.

  18. When writing an essay, should the book title be underlined, quoted, or

    When you're writing an essay, make sure you italicize the book title instead of underlining, bolding, parentheses, or using quotation marks. Book titles are italicized. If you are using a ...

  19. When to Use Quotation Marks for Titles

    For certain types of works, they're used to set apart titles. The general rule is to use quotation marks for titles of short works such as articles, poems, songs, essays, or short stories. By contrast, use italics for larger works such as books, movies, and the names of periodicals. We provide a complete list below.

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    I know that you underline - or if you're typing, you put the words in italics - the titles of books, and that you put chapters or quotations from a book in "quotes," but do you do anything to the font of a series of books; for example, Ranger's Apprentice?. I'm using this in an author's note, writing about how I am writing a book while reading a series, and that I want to mention that a ...

  21. Italics vs. Quotation Marks

    Quotation marks are customary for components, such as chapter titles in a book, individual episodes of a TV series, songs on a music album, and titles of articles or essays in print or online. Titles of plays, long and short, are generally italicized. Titles of poems and shorter works of fiction are generally in quotation marks.