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book title - italicize, quotes or underline?
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 12:49 pm
by 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
Re: book title - italicize, quotes or underline?
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 1:28 pm
by 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.
Re: book title - italicize, quotes or underline?
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 1:30 pm
by bk1
Obviously not quotes.
Re: book title - italicize, quotes or underline?
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 1:32 pm
by djjf39
Italics for books, quotes for scholarly articles, underlining for third-graders.
Re: book title - italicize, quotes or underline?
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 1:33 pm
by 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.
Re: book title - italicize, quotes or underline?
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 1:57 pm
by Mr. T
This site should help you:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
MissLucky wrote: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