Treatment of titles | Writing Style Guide

Academic titles See academic and administrative titles on the capitalization page for guidance.See quote attribution and degree formatting for guidance on current students and alumni.Events Proper names of events should be capitalized. In limited cases, events may also be italicized as necessary by University Marketing.Note: Quotation marks may be used only when capitalization and italicization cannot fulfill the need for technical or aesthetic reasons.Publications Titles of books, journals, magazines, plays, newspapers, and freestanding publicationsTitles of books, journals, magazines, plays, newspapers, and freestanding publications are italicized when quoted in text or bibliography. Always preserve original spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, and punctuation.ExamplesDavid McCullough’s best selling biography, John Adams, was recently made into a television mini-series.She receives most of her news from Time magazine and the New York Times.ExceptionAmpersands can be changed to...