Comments on: MLA titles: Formatting and capitalization rules

By: Jack Caulfield

Jack Caulfield — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 09:21:11 +0000

Hi Martha,

No, MLA doesn’t recommend additional formatting like that. If you feel it’s important to make this distinction in your text, you can always mention the nature of the publication when you first bring it up, e.g. “The novel The Great Gatsby is …”

By: Martha Cupp

Martha Cupp — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 16:12:17 +0000

If both a book title and a newspaper title are referenced in a text, and both are italicized, should the book title also be typed in boldface to differentiate it from the newspaper title?

By: Jack Caulfield

Jack Caulfield — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 11:13:16 +0000

In reply to Reilly Walker.

Hi Reilly,

Yes, the first and last words of a title are always capitalized, even if they wouldn’t be capitalized in any other position.

By: Reilly Walker

Reilly Walker — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 01:59:18 +0000

Would you capitalize an article, preposition, or coordinating conjunction if it was the last word of a title?

By: Shona McCombes

Shona McCombes — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 17:36:37 +0000

In reply to Stephen Reid.

Hi Stephen,

Yes, the names of newspapers should be italicized. When you refer to a source title in the text, you should style it the same as it appears in the Works Cited – either in italics or quotation marks, depending on the source type.

Hope that helps!

By: Stephen Reid

Stephen Reid — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:23:33 +0000

thanks for the advice; very useful
a question. should the title of a newspaper be italicised when it appears WITHIN the text of the essay eg …..as The Daily Telegraph reported……should the words The Daily Telegraph all be in italics?
Kind regards
Stephen