How to Correctly Refer to Your Work

When Does a Title Belong in Italics? When Does It Need Quotation Marks?

 

This month, Kore colleagues realized their goal of publishing a blog and some blog-related materials. The non-editor team member (yours truly) started to put every reference to the blog, Cut to the Core, in both italics and quotation marks. Here is the short lesson I learned about how to cite your work correctly:

The major title of any work should be in italics: e.g., titles of books, titles of journals, titles of magazines, titles of brochures.

 

The internal titles of those works should be in quotation marks: e.g., titles of chapters in books, titles of articles in journals or magazines, titles of individual sections in a brochure.

Here's the caveat, however. Italics and/or quotation marks do not have to be used for these titles in their original use in the original document. They should be used, though, when the titles are referred to in other places: e.g., individual paragraphs, other articles, other documents. 

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