Italicizing and Underlining
Rules for when to italicize titles
Use italics or underlining for titles of books, long poems, and plays.
For example:
| The Color Purple |
Ordinary People |
(books) |
| Beowulf |
The Iliad |
(long poems) |
| Hamlet |
The Glass Menagerie |
(plays) |
NOTE: Titles of sacred documents and legal or public documents are
capitalized but not set in italics.
For example:
| The Bible |
Book of Job |
the Koran |
| the New Testament |
the Constitution |
|
Use italics for newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals.
For example:
| The New York Times |
Time |
| The Wolf Print |
|
Use italics for works of art, long musical works, movies, and broadcast
shows (radio or television).
For example:
| DaVinci's Mona Lisa |
Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 |
| Superman |
Law and Order |
| All Things Considered | |