Rules for writers, Tenth edition - Diana Hacker, Nancy Sommers 2021
Italicize the titles of works according to convention
Italics
Mechanics
Titles of the following types of works should be italicized.
TITLES OF BOOKS The Color Purple, The Round House
MAGAZINES Time, Scientific American, Slate
NEWSPAPERS the Baltimore Sun, the Orlando Sentinel
LONG POEMS The Waste Land, Paradise Lost
PLAYS The Humans, Hamilton
FILMS Casablanca, Moonlight
TELEVISION PROGRAMS The Voice, Frontline
RADIO PROGRAMS All Things Considered
PODCAST SERIES Embedded
MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS Porgy and Bess
WORKS OF VISUAL ART American Gothic
DATABASES OR WEBSITES [MLA] JSTOR, Google
SOFTWARE OR APPS [MLA] Photoshop, Instagram
The titles of other works — including short stories, essays, episodes of radio and television programs, songs, and short poems — are enclosed in quotation marks. (See 38c.)
NOTE: Do not use italics when referring to the Bible, titles of books in the Bible (Genesis, not Genesis), or titles of legal documents (the Constitution, not the Constitution).