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MLA Style: Title

Where the Title is Located

The title is found on the tile page of the book.  It is located at the very front of he book, often the first page.  (p 25)

Capitalization

  •  All princical words in a title are capitalized, even when they are not capitalized on the title page
  • Do not capitalize articles (a, an, the)
  • Do not capitalize prepositions if they are in the middle of the title   (against, as, between, in, of, to, as)
  • Do not capitalize coordinating conjuctions (and, but, for, nor, or,  so, yet)
  • The word "To"  (p 67)

Titles

  • The title of an essay, a story, or a poem in a collection, as part of a larger whole, is placed in quotation marks
  • The title of a periodical is set in italics
    • Itzkovich,Yariv, and  Sibylle Heilbrunn.  "The Role of Co-Workers' Solidarity as an Antecedent of Incivility and Deviant Behavior in Organizations"   Deviant Behavior   vol. 37, no. 8,  Aug 2016,  pp. 861-876.  doi: 10.1080/01639625.2016.1152865.
  • The title of an article within a periodical is set in quotation marks
    • Demers, Simn. "Comment on Estimating the True Rate of Repeat Victimization from Police-Recorded Crime Data" Canadian Journal of Criminology & Criminal Justice. vol. 58 no. 4  Oct 2016 pp 598-608 DOI: 10.3138/cjccj.2015E28.
  • Titles of books are set in italics  (p25-29)
    • EXAMPLE:  Colllins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games.  Scholastic Press, 2008