{"id":114,"date":"2019-06-04T15:10:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T19:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/brand\/?page_id=114"},"modified":"2025-08-11T15:57:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T19:57:30","slug":"titles-of-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/brand\/guidelines\/editorial-style\/titles-of-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Titles of Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rules for formatting in italic, roman, or in quotes are as follows, using title-style capitalization (See also <a href=\"#TOW-captial\">\u201cTitles of Works\u2014Capitalization\u201d<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Italicize titles of:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"editorial-sample\">\n<li>art exhibitions<\/li>\n<li>blog names<\/li>\n<li>books<\/li>\n<li>concerts<\/li>\n<li>law cases<\/li>\n<li>long poems<\/li>\n<li>magazines<\/li>\n<li>movies<\/li>\n<li>newspapers<\/li>\n<li>plays<\/li>\n<li>podcast series<\/li>\n<li>radio shows<\/li>\n<li>record albums\/CDs<\/li>\n<li>ships<\/li>\n<li>television shows<\/li>\n<li>web publications (e.g., <em data-redactor-tag=\"em\">Salon<\/em>, <em data-redactor-tag=\"em\">Slate<\/em>, and <em data-redactor-tag=\"em\">BU Today<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>works of art<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Use quotation marks, with no italics, around titles of:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"editorial-sample\">\n<li>articles and papers<\/li>\n<li>chapters<\/li>\n<li>individual lectures<\/li>\n<li>podcasts and individual videos<\/li>\n<li>short poems<\/li>\n<li>short stories<\/li>\n<li>single TV episodes<\/li>\n<li>songs<\/li>\n<li>speeches<\/li>\n<li>unpublished works, such as theses and dissertations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Use neither quotation marks nor italics for titles of:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"editorial-sample\">\n<li>apps<\/li>\n<li>courses<\/li>\n<li>lecture series<\/li>\n<li>websites<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rules for formatting in italic, roman, or in quotes are as follows, using title-style capitalization (See also \u201cTitles of Works\u2014Capitalization\u201d). Italicize titles of: art exhibitions blog names books concerts law cases long poems magazines movies newspapers plays podcast series radio shows record albums\/CDs ships television shows web publications (e.g., Salon, Slate, and BU Today) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14430,"featured_media":0,"parent":97,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/brand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/brand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/brand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/brand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/brand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/brand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3069,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/brand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114\/revisions\/3069"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/brand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/brand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}