Canadian Style Tip #15: Titles

This post is part of the Canadian Style series.

8.13 Titles

Quotation marks should enclose the titles of the following within footnotes, bibliographies, and bodies of text:

  • newspaper, magazine, and periodical articles
  • book chapters
  • short stories from collections
  • lectures
  • papers
  • songs
  • poems from collections
  • dissertations
  • theses
  • unpublished manuscripts
  • radio and TV programmes

By Kim Siever

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2 comments

  1. Not radio and TV shows, and program is spelled thus in Canada. You do not watch “The Simpsons.” You did not watch “The Simpsons”’ most recent episode. Nor did anyone watch “The Sopranos”’s last episode.

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