A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations, 7th edition - Kate L. Turabian 2007

Typography
Names, special terms, and titles of works
Part III. Style 20 spelling

Special typography—italics and quotation marks—also helps set off the titles of works from surrounding text. The guidelines listed here apply to titles used in text. They also apply to most titles in bibliography-style citations (see chapter 17), but not to those in reference list—style citations (see chapter 19).

The examples below are presented with headline-style capitalization, but the guidelines also apply to titles with sentence-style capitalization (see 22.3.1).

ITALICS. Italicize the titles of longer works that have been published (in print or electronic form) or otherwise made public, including the following types. In text (but not citations), the word the should be roman and lowercase at the beginning of most titles, even when it is part of the official title. For parts of these works and shorter works of the same type, see below.

books (Culture and Anarchy, the Chicago Manual of Style)

plays (A Winter's Tale) and very long poems, especially those of book length (Dante's Inferno)

journals (Signs), magazines (Time), newspapers (the Washington Post), and other periodicals

long musical compositions (the Marriage of Figaro)

paintings (Mona Lisa), sculptures (Michelangelo's David), and other works of art, except for photographs

movies (Citizen Kane) and television (Sesame Street) and radio programs (All Things Considered)

QUOTATION MARKS. Enclose in quotation marks, but do not italicize, the title of a shorter work, which may or may not be part of a longer work (such as those listed above).

chapters (“The Later Years”) or other titled parts of books

short stories (“The Dead”), short poems (“The Housekeeper”), and essays (“Of Books”)

articles or other features in journals (“The Function of Fashion in Eighteenth-century America”), magazines (“Who Should Lead the Supreme Court?”), newspapers (“Election Comes Down to the Wire”), and other periodicals

individual episodes of television programs (“The Opposite”)

short musical compositions (“The Star-Spangled Banner”)

photographs (Ansel Adams's “North Dome”)

Also use quotation marks and roman type for titles of whole works that have not been formally published, including the following:

theses and dissertations (“A Study of Kant's Early Works”)

lectures and papers presented at meetings (“Voice and Inequality: The Transformation of American Civic Democracy”)

titled documents in manuscript collections (“A Map of the Southern Indian District of North America”)

NO SPECIAL TYPOGRAPHY. Capitalize but do not use italics or quotation marks with these special types of titles:

book series (Studies in Legal History)

manuscript collections (Egmont Manuscripts)

scriptures (the Bible) and other revered works (the Upanishads), as well as versions of the Bible (the King James Version) and its books (Genesis; see 24.6 for a complete list)

musical works referred to by their genre (Symphony no. 41, Cantata BWV 80), though the popular titles for such works should be italicized (the Jupiter Symphony) or placed in quotation marks (“Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott”) depending on their length, as noted above

Web sites referred to generally (MSNBC.com), though in citations the titles of Web sites should be italicized (Salon.com), and the titles of individual articles or pages should be set in roman type and enclosed in quotation marks (“The Fix”)

Treat generic terms for parts of books or other works as you would any other word. Do not capitalize them or use italics or quotation marks unless you would do the same for an ordinary word (as at the beginning of a sentence). If a part includes a number, give it in arabic numerals, regardless of its appearance in the original work (see 23.1.8).

in Lionel Trilling's preface

as discussed in chapters 4 and 5

a comprehensive bibliography

killed off in act 3, scene 2