QUOTATION MARKS

QUOTATION MARKS

vs.

UNDERLINING

Here’s the long and short of it:
- Underline long items:
  - titles of magazines, journals, or newspapers; books; novels; long (epic) poems; compact discs/albums;
  - television shows; movies; works of art; names of trains, planes, ships, and spacecraft
- Put “ ” around short items:
  - titles of magazine, journal, or newspaper articles; book chapters; short stories;
  - short poems; songs; television episodes

*UNDERLINE (long)*	*QUOTATION MARKS (short)*
magazines, journals, or newspapers	magazine, journal, or newspaper articles
books novels	book chapters short stories
long (epic) poems	short poems
compact discs/albums	songs
television shows/programs	television episodes
movies
works of art
trains, planes, ships, and spacecraft

*When you have a title embedded within another title follow the examples below:

an underlined title within a title in quotation marks:	"The Titanic Sails Again: Projects Revise Interest" [an article about a ship]
an underlined title within another underlined title:	Collected Essays on Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear: The Great Tragedies. [a book about two plays]
a title set in quotes within another title set in quotes:	"The Significance of ‘Young Goodman Brown.’" [an article about a short story]
a title set in quotes within a title that is underlined:	Late-Twentieth-Century Interpretations of "The Tell-Tale Heart." [a book about a short story]

*VIDEO GAMES:
- while MLA is lagging is this matter,
- we will follow the guidelines for books or movies and underline these titles
  - Halo, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

*MLA 2010:
- Again, MLA has suggested italicizing what we once underlined:
  - the same rules apply
  - be consistent throughout the entirety of your paper
    - from text to Works Cited page