WHAT DO I DO??!?!? underline or make it italic for a title??

Question

i'm writing essays on books and the title for the essay is the books title, for example jane eyre... do i underline that or make it italic?

Answer 1

The title of a book is always underlined or in Bold print. Short story titles and essay titles of published writers are in quotation marks. Never use both underlining and quotation marks-that is automatically wrong. You would underline Jane Eyre.

Answer 2

Holy cow, I have never seen so many bad answers. Quotation marks are wrong -- they are used for short stories within a book, or articles within a periodical.



The old school method is underlining. If you want to play it safe, go with that. The modern method is italics. It is commonly accepted, and just looks crisper, but some ancient professors will dock you for it.

Answer 3

Generally a underline is used for a book, cd(I almost wrote album, what a fossil),movie, magazine or play. Quotations are used for parts of the whole a magazine article, poem, song, and such. Italics are usually used to signal something is different, a character thinking to themselves or a foreign language for example. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Hi.



The whole book's name /title gets underlined; its chapters' names/titles get quotation marks.



The whole newspaper's name gets underlined; its articles' names/titles get quotation marks.



So, you capitalize the "J" in Jane and the "E" in Eyre and underline that title. Back in the day, each word in a title was separately underlined. It hasn't changed; we just rarely do it....

Answer 5

Underline

Answer 6

If you have a title, no matter what it is, just capitalize as appropriate. i.e. the title of your essay will be

Jane Eyre

and that is all. No italics, no underlining for your title. In your Bibliography that is where you will do the underlining of the title for the book that was your reference.

Answer 7

No italic, we only use italics when we are quoting an act e.g The Sentencing Act 1991 or for another example: The Privacy Act 2001.

As for book titles being in italics, I don't believe that this is a requirement, however it's optional for you.

Answer 8

You can either underscore or italicise Jane Eyre, typographically they mean the same thing. But I would add something to your title, "An Essay on" or "A Review of" or some such. "Jane Eyre" is the name of a book, not your essay or, to put it another way, you're not writing Jane Eyre, you're writing about it.

Answer 9

whilst you're doing a manuscript for a writer, use underline. whether it extremely is for private use, it would not rely, different than that whilst you're utilising a sans serif font, it extremely is much less complicated to work out underline than italics.

Answer 10

You always underline a book title.

Answer 11

title of essay - bold

title of a movie/book - underline/italic

Answer 12

underline for books an italic for poems

Answer 13

You never put a book title in quotes! Either underline it OR italicize it.

Answer 14

Quotation marks

Answer 15

A tie....



"The Princess" and "Sophie's Choice" by Lori Wick

Answer 16

Sometimes they accept both, but pick underline, that's the safest.

Answer 17

Quotation marks used to be the proper way, but italicizing is acceptable.

Answer 18

You put qoutation marks around it.

Answer 19

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