Italicize the titles of works according to convention - Italics - Mechanics

Rules for writers, Tenth edition - Diana Hacker, Nancy Sommers 2021

Italicize the titles of works according to convention
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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).