{"id":72,"date":"2008-01-30T02:33:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T02:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2021-04-27T12:21:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T17:21:00","slug":"titles-of-books-plays-articles-etc-underline-italicize-use-quotation-marks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/quotation-marks\/titles-of-books-plays-articles-etc-underline-italicize-use-quotation-marks\/","title":{"rendered":"Titles of Books, Plays, Articles, etc.: Underline? Italics? Quotation Marks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to computers, people were taught to underline titles of books and plays and to surround chapters, articles, songs, and other shorter works in quotation marks. However, here is what <em>The Chicago Manual of Style<\/em> says: When quoted in text or listed in a bibliography, titles of books, journals, plays, and other freestanding works are italicized; titles of articles, chapters, and other shorter works are set in roman and enclosed in quotation marks.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some examples to help you:<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nExample:<\/strong> We read <em>A Separate Peace<\/em> in class. (title of a book)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong> That <em>Time<\/em> magazine article, \u201cYour Brain on Drugs,\u201d was fascinating.<br \/>\nNote that the word \u201cmagazine\u201d was not italicized because that is not part of the actual name of the publication.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong> His article, \u201cDeath by Dessert,\u201d appeared in <em>The New York Times Magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Note that <em>the<\/em> and <em>magazine<\/em> are both capitalized and set off because the name of the publication is <em>The New York Times Magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Newspapers, which follow <em>The Associated Press Stylebook<\/em>, have their own sets of rules because italics cannot be sent through AP computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to computers, people were taught to underline titles of books and plays and to surround chapters, articles, songs, and other shorter works in quotation marks. However, here is what The Chicago Manual of Style says: When quoted in text or listed in a bibliography, titles of books, journals, plays, and other freestanding works are [&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-72","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\/72"}],"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=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}