Tips on Italics or Quotation Marks for Titles

It can be confusing to know what to do with titles when you include them in a manuscript or article. Here’s a guide you can copy and keep on hand.

Titles of…

• Works of Art – Quotation Marks
• Television and Radio Episodes – Quotation Marks
• Television Shows and Movies – Italics
• Song Titles – Quotation Marks
• Short Stories – Quotation Marks
• Ships, Trains, Airplanes, Spacecraft (names of) – Italics
• Plays – Italics
• Poems (long) – Italics
• Poems (shorter) – Quotation Marks
• Magazines, Newspapers, Journals – Italics
• Newspaper or Magazine Articles – Quotation Marks
• Chapter Titles – Quotation Marks
• CDs – Italics
• Books – Italics

I wish you the best with your writing and process.

Joyce Shafer

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