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How To Indicate Titles

The biggest thing to remember with titles is to always capitalize the first word, the last word, and all words in between that convey meaning.  So articles (a, an, the), prepositions (behind, before, on, in, off, at, behind, over, with, to, etc.), or small conjunctions (or, nor, yet, also, as, that, but, and, for) won't be capitalized unless they appear at the beginning or end of a title.

Whole and Longer Works are either Underlined or Italicized.  Take a look:

 

Books                    Pamphlets                   Magazines                    Journals                    Newspapers                    Movies                    Long poems (Iliad or Odyssey)

 

Operas                  Full-length plays          Musicals                       CDs                           Ballets                             Symphonies            Paintings

 

Names of ships, aircraft, or spacecraft (Titanic)

 

Shorter works and parts of larger works are "Quoted"

 

Poems                   TV Shows                    One-act Plays             Piano Pieces              Short Stories                   Newspaper articles   

 

Songs                    Chapters                      Essays                        Speeches                   Magazine articles           References to pieces of your own writing

Sacred Scriptures (Bible, Torah, Koran), Series (the Twilight books), and your titles only require capitalization of first letters.

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