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Posted by KayTi (Member # 5137) on July 08, 2009 09:55 AM:
 
Can anyone point me to the proper reference for formatting of Movie titles inside story text?

Does it matter if the movie titles don't actually exist? (some of them do, but War With Alpha Centauri is my own made-up movie. )

Thanks!
 


Posted by Spaceman (Member # 9240) on July 08, 2009 12:59 PM:
 
Like the title of anything. Underlined in manuscript to represent italics in print.
 
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on July 09, 2009 02:11 PM:
 
Titles of books and movies and plays as Spaceman said.

I understand that titles of episodes of tv shows, short stories, and other parts of longer works should be set off with quotation marks, and that novellas get quotemarks unless they are published all by themselves in book form, then it's underlining to indicate italics.
 


Posted by philocinemas (Member # 8108) on July 09, 2009 08:05 PM:
 
I have always kept it straight by understanding certain media that is part of a collection is in quotation marks. While media that is larger in content and scope or that contains smaller pieces is in italics. Obviously, certain book and movie sequels do not fall under this rule, but it works for most other situations.

TV show - italics; TV episode - quotation marks
Newspaper/magazine - italics; article - quotation marks
Collection of stories - italics; short story - quotation marks.
Music album - italics; song - quotation marks.

[This message has been edited by philocinemas (edited July 09, 2009).]
 


Posted by Spaceman (Member # 9240) on July 11, 2009 05:43 PM:
 
Chicago Manual of Style seems to concur with philocinemas.
 
Posted by alittleofeverything (Member # 8024) on July 12, 2009 04:40 PM:
 
Way to look it up, spaceman!
 


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