Formatting titles

Key Notes:

The title of a book, film, play, TV programme, magazine or newspaper should be in italics. If you write it by hand, it can be underlined instead.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The title of a poem, song, article or short story should be in quotation marks.

‘You Are My Sunshine’

Learn with an example

Which correctly shows the title of a newspaper?

  • ‘Stranraer and Wigtownshire Free Press’
  • Stranraer and Wigtownshire Free Press
  • A newspaper should be in italics.
  • The correct title is Stranraer and Wigtownshire Free Press.

Which correctly shows the title of a book?

  • ‘Green Eggs and Ham’
  • Green Eggs and Ham
  • A book should be in italics.
  • The correct title is Green Eggs and Ham.

Which correctly shows the title of a film?

  • Nothing but Net‘
  • Nothing but Net’
  • A film should be in italics.
  • The correct title is Nothing but Net.

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