MLA RULES FOR PUNCTUATING TITLES
OF SOURCES
UNDERLINE TITLES OF:
BOOKS Gone With the Wind PERIODICAL TITLES Time, Journal of American History LONG POEMS Paradise Lost PLAYS Romeo and Juliet MOVIES/TV SERIES Star Trek PAINTINGS/SCULPTURE Mona Lisa, Pieta SHIPS Titanic + Note: Underline letters and spaces.
SET IN QUOTATION MARKS TITLES OF:
CHAPTER TITLES "How to Choose a Topic" ESSAYS "Civil Disobedience" ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS "The No-Pesticide Revolution" SHORT POEMS "Kubla Khan" TV EPISODES "Trouble With Tribbles" TITLES OF WEB PAGES "Evaluating World Wide Web Information"
When you have a title embedded within another title follow the examples below:
an underlined title within a title in quotation marks:
"Return to the Titanic: Gash Is Dashed" [an article about a ship]an underlined title within another underlined title:
An Introduction to Hamlet and King Lear: Themes and Characters. [a book about two plays]a title set in quotes within another title set in quotes:
"The Dream of ‘Young Goodman Brown.’" [an article about a short story]a title set in quotes within a title that is underlined:
Twentieth-Century Interpretations of "The Fall of the House of Usher." [a book about a short story]
