Composition Titles
Source type |
Italicize |
Quotation marks |
No italics or quotation marks |
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Art |
works of art, names of paintings or photographs |
official titles of art exhibits |
traditional or descriptive names of artworks, descriptive titles of art exhibits |
Music |
operas, long musical compositions, their descriptive or traditional titles |
songs, short musical compositions |
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Poetry |
collections of poems, long poems published separately |
short poems |
parts of poems |
Spoken word (not poetry or plays) |
proceedings of conferences |
substantive titles of conferences, unpublished lectures, speeches, and papers |
Groups or clubs |
Written word (not poetry) |
published: books, monographs, pamphlets, brochures, periodicals (magazines, newsletters, journals, etc.) collections of plays, essays, and short stories, newspapers (entire titles), newspaper sections published separately, blog titles |
parts and chapters of books, dissertations, theses, manuscripts, reports, unpublished lectures, speeches, and papers, short stories and essays included in books, blog entry titles |
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Other |
plays, motion pictures, albums, CDs, radio or television programs, legal cases, ships and aircraft, foreign words |
university course titles, names of depositories, archives, manuscript collections, organizations (National Public Radio), parties (republican), alliances, bills, project titles |