{"id":255,"date":"2009-05-03T23:41:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T05:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:46:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T23:46:19","slug":"how-to-reference-books-and-articles-in-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/quotation-marks\/how-to-reference-books-and-articles-in-text\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Reference Books and Articles in Text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before computers, we used typewriters to underline book titles, and we placed quotation marks around article titles. However, many current style manuals recommend italicizing book titles and magazine names (impossible to do on a typewriter) and using quotation marks around articles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong> I read <em>Lord of the Flies<\/em> in high school.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong> I enjoyed reading \u201cBecome Your Own Best Friend\u201d in <em>Newsweek<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pop Quiz<\/strong><br \/>\nChoose the correct sentence.<\/p>\n<p>1A. My brother thought the &#8220;New York Times&#8221; article <em>Homeless Team Roots for a New Life Through Soccer<\/em> was fascinating.<br \/>\n1B. My brother thought the <em>New York Times<\/em> article &#8220;Homeless Team Roots for a New Life Through Soccer&#8221; was fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>2A. &#8220;Light Meals for Nibblers&#8221; is a chapter in <em>The Enchanted Broccoli Forest<\/em>, one of my favorite vegetarian cookbooks.<br \/>\n2B. <em>Light Meals for Nibblers<\/em> is a chapter in &#8220;The Enchanted Broccoli Forest,&#8221; one of my favorite vegetarian cookbooks.<\/p>\n<p>3A. I remember reading &#8220;The Catcher in the Rye&#8221; when I was a teenager.<br \/>\n3B. I remember reading <em>The Catcher in the Rye<\/em> when I was a teenager.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pop Quiz Answers<\/strong><br \/>\n1B. My brother thought the <em>New York Times<\/em> article &#8220;Homeless Team Roots for a New Life Through Soccer&#8221; was fascinating.<br \/>\n2A. &#8220;Light Meals for Nibblers&#8221; is a chapter in <em>The Enchanted Broccoli Forest<\/em>, one of my favorite vegetarian cookbooks.<br \/>\n3B. I remember reading <em>The Catcher in the Rye<\/em> when I was a teenager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before computers, we used typewriters to underline book titles, and we placed quotation marks around article titles. However, many current style manuals recommend italicizing book titles and magazine names (impossible to do on a typewriter) and using quotation marks around articles. Example: I read Lord of the Flies in high school. Example: I enjoyed reading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotation-marks","category-titles"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}