Only use the title of a literary work found in its title page for citations  

• use colons to separate the main title from the subtitle unless the main title ends with a question mark, exclamation point, or dash
• include punctuation as it appears on the title page

Capitalize the word in the title if:  

• noun
• pronoun
• verb
• adjective
• adverb
• subordinating conjunction

Do not capitalize the word if:  

• article adjective
• preposition
• coordinating conjunctions
• to in infinitives

Underline (or italicize) titles if:  

• book
• play
• long poem published as a book
• pamphlet
• newspaper/magazine
• film/television program
• compact disc/audiocassette/record album
• ballet
• opera
• long musical composition with its own identifiable name
• painting/sculpture
• ship/aircraft/spacecraft

Use quotation marks for works published within larger works such as:  

• newspaper/magazine article
• encyclopedia article
• essay in a book
• short story
• poem
• chapter in a book
• episode of a television program
• song
• lecture

Titles with other titles together  

• underline the appropriate titles normally when they appear within quotations
• add single quotation marks around the appropriate titles within quotations
• put quotations marks around appropriate titles that are part of an underlined title
• for a normally underlined title that appears within another underlined title, don't underline the titles that appear within the larger title

Exceptions to all these rules for titles  

• sacred writings
• laws and political documents
• musical compositions named by form, number, and key
• series of literary works
• societies
• buildings/monuments
• conferences/seminars/class courses
• words that indicate the divisions of a certain literary work