Language e-Link Eighteen:
Italics or Quotation Marks in Title?

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Italics and Quotation Marks Tips:

Use italics with titles of works that have parts or subsections to them. These include titles of books, magazines, newspapers, movies, and works of art.

Books may have such parts as chapters and tables of contents; magazines and newspapers are divided into such subsections as articles; movies include credits at both the beginning and end; and paintings and sculptures may be so large that different parts of them have names.

Use quotation marks with works that are part of other works. Titles of poems, essays, speeches, chapters, tables of contents, articles, movie credits, and parts of art works should be placed in quotation marks.


Directions:
Study the examples below that show when to use italics or quotation marks with titles.

Book and Chapter
Titles

Fire in the Valley, by Freeberger and Swaine, includes a chapter called, "Tender of the Fire: The Making of the Personal Computer."

Magazine Title My cousin likes to read Wired magazine.

Book and Article
Titles
"Cybermama Rocks!" was the title of an article about the novel Cybermama.

Work of Art Title Our class visited the Andy Warhol Museum to see Cow.


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