book title - italicize, quotes or underline? Forum

[MissLucky]

silly that i don't know this...and I tried to google this and came up with conflicting responses. what is the generally agreed upon formatting when referencing the title of a book? quotes, italics, or underline?? thanks dudes

[ARTfulDodger]

From my experience in undergrad, italics. However, there have been instances (prior to undergrad), where I have used both quotes and underlining when referencing a title of a book.

[bk1]

Obviously not quotes.

[djjf39]

Italics for books, quotes for scholarly articles, underlining for third-graders.

[paratactical]

Quotes are for short works. Both italics and underline are technically correct for titles of books. Italics wasn't always standard because it didn't work on typewriters and early italics in fonts were not always readable. The important thing is consistency.

[Mr. T]

This site should help you: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

silly that i don't know this...and I tried to google this and came up with conflicting responses. what is the generally agreed upon formatting when referencing the title of a book? quotes, italics, or underline?? thanks dudes