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Wikipedia:Manual of Style (titles)

Use italics for the title or name of books, movies, albums, TV series, magazines, ships, major orchestral works, and court cases. If the title is also a link, you should usually place the italic markup outside the brackets, but see the Titanic example below for a special case.

  • Huckleberry Finn, DCL Command Language Manual
    • ''[[Huckleberry Finn]]'', ''DCL Command Language Manual''
  • Casablanca, Boccacio '70
    • ''[[Casablanca]]'', ''Bocaccio '70''
  • The Mary Tyler Moore Show
    • ''The [[Mary Tyler Moore]] Show''
  • Life magazine, Astounding Science Fiction
    • ''Life'' magazine, ''[[Astounding Science Fiction]]''
  • RMS Titanic, only the name is italicized, not the classification. This link will require a pipe character (a "|"), as italics tags will not work within a link
    • [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']]
  • Symphony No. 9 Op. 95 'From the New World'
    • ''[[Symphony]] No. 9 Op. 95 'From the New World' ''
  • Eldred v. Ashcroft, Plessy v. Ferguson
    • ''[[Eldred v. Ashcroft]]'', ''[[Plessy v. Ferguson]]''

Use "quotes" for the title or name of short stories, articles, statues, short films, songs, individual episodes of TV shows, and poems (except for epic poems, e.g. Odyssey and Iliad).

  • "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", Rodin's "The Thinker", "Goober and Gomer Change a Tire", "Do's and Don'ts of Dating", "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
  • "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "She's Leaving Home" appear on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

See also: Wikipedia:Filmographies and Discographies

The naming of television shows is currently under discussion on the talk page.



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