titles: choosing italics or quotation marks

How to mark the name of a book, film, article, or song.

Italicize the titles of whole works: books, films, plays, albums, newspapers, and journals. Put the titles of short works in quotation marks: articles, essays, poems, songs, and chapters. Do not underline a title in ordinary prose. Do not put a whole-work title in quotation marks.

Examples

UseShe cited The Elements of Style.

UseHe quoted “Ode on a Grecian Urn.”

AvoidShe cited “The Elements of Style.”