Re: book/series titles

[Kathryn Frech <kfrech@SYRDIOCESE.ORG>]

On 20 May 2003 at 13:14, Robin Shtulman wrote:

> does anything need to be underlined or italicized?  My instinct says
> Harry Potter should be underlined or italicized but the others should
> not.

According to Strunk & White, titles should be italicized,
or underlined in 'manuscripts'. Since underlining "stands
for" italics (due to the fact that older typewriters could
not italicize), you should use one style or the other, but
not both in the same work.

In reports and research papers, titles of books are shown
with underlining in In-Text Citations and bibliographies,
and I would expect them to also use underlining in other
references to books in their papers, as that's far less
confusing than changing styles.

Kathryn
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