M5-a Italicize titles of long or self-contained works.

Printed Page H-78

Titles of books, newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, pamphlets, long poems, movies, television and radio programs, long musical compositions, plays, comic strips, and works of art are italicized.

the Georgia Review Beowulf Citizen Kane
the Washington Post 60 Minutes Pride and Prejudice

Note: The Bible and its divisions are not italicized.

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Titles of short works or works contained in other works are not italicized but are placed in quotation marks. (See also P6-c.)

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