title treatment

[libby]

I grew up always underlining the titles of books and putting quotes around titles of articles from a magazine. I know we are not to underline book titles on CC. I also thought we were not to italicize titles, just use caps correctly. This is not in the Writers Guidelines but it seems that I read it somewhere, perhaps in the forum, perhaps in another guide suggested on this forum. I used this treatment for a magazine title and a website title in my approved submission.

However in the Writers Guidelines, the example given about using caps correctly in titles, actually does italicize the title.

Please clarify what CC prefers about treatment of book, magazine and website titles and articles or chapters within them.

Thanks ever so much.

[Ed]

Titles should always be set off properly from the rest of the text using italics or quotation marks according to current standards. Italics are preferred over underlining, the latter of which has fallen out of favor along with the typewriter. The only rule against italics says that whole article should not be submitted in italicized, bold, or colored font. Italics are useful and sometimes necessary.

Thanks,
Ed

[libby]

Thank you Ed. I don't know where I picked up that incorrect idea about not italicizing (I could have sworn...) This makes me much more comfortable however.

But it also begs the question about my content which is up for sale with unitalicized titles. If I understand the process, once content is approved it cannot be edited. Shall I do anything?

[Ed]

You can't edit it on site, but if it bothers you, you can delete it and resubmit with a note in the short summary about the changes that have been made.


Thanks,
Ed

[audrabianca]

Somewhere, Ed, a while back you posted in the forum that the use of quotes is preferred on the web for things like book and movie titles because as people paste articles into blogs and websites after buying content on CC, the italicized formatting of titles may not transfer with the content.

[Ed]

I said they wouldn't show up in summary boxes or content details.