Titles of the following types of works should be italicized.
titles of books The Color Purple, The Round House
magazines Time, Scientific American, Slate
newspapers the Baltimore Sun, the Orlando Sentinel
pamphlets Common Sense, Facts about Marijuana
long poems The Waste Land, Paradise Lost
plays ’Night Mother, Wicked
films Casablanca, Argo
television programs The Voice, Homeland
radio programs All Things Considered
musical compositions Porgy and Bess
choreographic works Brief Fling
works of visual art American Gothic
video games Everquest, Call of Duty
The titles of other works—including short stories, essays, episodes of radio and television programs, songs, and short poems—are enclosed in quotation marks.
note: Do not use italics when referring to the Bible, titles of books in the Bible (Genesis, not Genesis), or titles of legal documents (the Constitution, not the Constitution).
Ships, spacecraft, and aircraft
Queen Mary 2, Endeavour, Wright Flyer
The success of the Soviets’ Sputnik energized the US space program.
Foreign words
Shakespeare’s Falstaff is a comic character known for both his excessive drinking and his general joie de vivre.
exception: Do not italicize foreign words that have become a standard part of the English language—“laissez-faire,” “fait accompli,” “modus operandi,” and “per diem,” for example.
Words mentioned as words, letters mentioned as letters, and numbers mentioned as numbers
Tomás assured us that the chemicals could probably be safely mixed, but his probably stuck in our minds.
Some toddlers have trouble pronouncing the letters f and s.
A big 3 was painted on the stage door.