QUOTATION MARKS vs. UNDERLINING
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· Here’s the long and short of it:
o 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
o Put “ ” around short items:
§ titles of magazine, journal, or newspaper articles; book chapters; short stories; short poems; songs; television episodes
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UNDERLINE (long) |
QUOTATION MARKS (short) |
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magazines, journals, or newspapers |
magazine, journal, or newspaper articles |
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books novels |
book chapters short stories |
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long (epic) poems |
short poems |
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compact discs/albums |
songs |
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television shows/programs |
television episodes |
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movies |
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works of art |
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trains, planes, ships, and spacecraft |
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*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] |
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VIDEO GAMES:
while MLA is lagging is this matter, we will follow the
guidelines for books or movies and underline these titles
o Halo, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory