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8.13 Titles

Quotation marks should enclose the titles of the following when those titles are presented within the body of the text, in footnotes and in bibliographies:

  • articles from newspapers, magazines and periodicals
  • chapters of books
  • short stories published in collections
  • lectures and papers
  • songs and short musical compositions
  • short poems, and poems from collections
  • dissertations and theses
  • unpublished manuscripts
  • radio and television programs

See 6.05 Titles of publications and works of art for titles of works that are italicized.