Chicago Style Workout 4:
Titles of Books and Articles

/ April 26, 2016

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This workout centers on paragraphs 8.170–78 and 8.179–82 in CMOS 18. Advanced editors might tackle the questions cold; learners can study those sections of the Manual before answering the questions.

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Now updated to refer and link to the 18th edition.

Chicago Style Workout 4: Titles of Books and Articles

1. The titles of books and periodicals are italicized.
2. Titles of newspaper articles are set in roman type and enclosed in quotation marks.
3. When newspapers and other periodicals are mentioned in text, an initial The that is part of the official title is capitalized and italicized: She reads The New York Times on the train.
4. Generic terms such as foreword, preface, introduction, and index are capitalized and set in roman type in running text (I saw in the Preface that . . .).
5. Titles of short stories and essays are set in roman type and enclosed in quotation marks.
6. These connections are illustrated in table 32.
7. Claire Curtis’s article Remainders of the American Century appeared in the journal American Political Thought.
8. a volume in the Crime and Justice series
9. Clifford Garstang’s first novel has a chapter called “The Clattering of Bones.”
10. I read it in Time magazine and The Wall Street Journal.

 

Photo: Manuscripts and Archives Division, Sports, Boxing, Women in Trylon and Perisphere Sweaters Boxing, New York Public Library Digital Collections.

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