composition titles
Apply the guidelines listed here to book titles, magazine titles, movie titles, opera titles, play titles, album titles, television program titles, and the titles of works of art.
- Capitalize the principal words, including prepositions of four or more letters.
- Capitalize an article — the, a, an — or words of fewer than four letters if it is the first or last word in a title.
- Italicize the names of all such works except the Bible and books that are primarily catalogs of reference material. In addition to catalogs, this category includes almanacs, directories, dictionaries, encyclopedias, gazetteers, handbooks, and similar publications.
- Translate a foreign title into English unless a work is known to the American public by its foreign name.
