37c. Titles of works

37cUse quotation marks around the titles of short works.

Short works include newspaper and magazine articles, poems, short stories, songs, episodes of television and radio programs, and chapters or subdivisions of books.

James Baldwin’s story “Sonny’s Blues” tells the story of two brothers who come to understand each other’s suffering.

note: Titles of long works such as books, plays, television and radio programs, films, magazines, and so on are put in italics. (See 42a.)