Question

when you write a song in a sentence is it quatations or italicised?

Answer 1

Usually it would be in quotation marks with a citation of the artist. It may depend on the type of formatting your teacher wants, however.

Answer 2

what abot a movie?

Answer 3

The same. Just make sure you attribute it to a movie or writer, and put it in your works cited or works quoted section. Even if it's really well known, cite EVERYTHING. You never want to risk being in trouble for plagiarism.

Answer 4

I believe a movie title would actually be italicized in cases, but Iperkows is right in that it all really comes down to how your instructor wants it formatted. It would be best to ask him or her about formatting questions. We all use different formatting for what we do. Many use MLA, I am required to use APA. So you are likely to get a variety of answers to formatting questions here. ;)

Answer 5

Yes, I think I was assuming you were talking about a quote from a movie or song. Jagatuba is current, if it's a title, you want to italicize it, not put it into quotation marks. When you quote, make sure you put the italicized title into parentheses afterwards.

Answer 6

The way I always remember whether to put it in quotes or italics is that if it can be put in a book with sections or chapters; put the title in quotes. If it can stand as it's own literary work italicize. So book titles movie or television show titles: Italics. Song, poems, chapters, sections, articles: quotes

Answer 7

Caveat for poems: short poems are in quotation marks. Long poems (think epic poetry like Beowulf, Gawain, etc) are italicized.

Answer 8

Yes. I believe you are correct.

Answer 9

then again, I guess long poems/epic poems qualify as being a stand-alone literary work?

Answer 10

That is how I would classify it. I think of it like this. Would it fit in a book with other works of the same genre? If so put it in quotes. If not then it is a literary work.

Answer 11

I can see works like The Odyssey, Paradise Lost, Beowulf, etc. being in a compilation or anthology.

Answer 12

can't see rather

Answer 13

I've seen Beowulf and Paradise Lost in a compilation, but that was because it was a literature textbook. I guess if you can buy a separate copy of the poem at a book store would be the rule?

Answer 14

We're just discussing a general rule of thumb and theoretically someone could publish a compilation of any number of literary works in a gigantic tome, like all of Stephen King's novels, but they are still really novels. They comprise their own book. Most poems cannot make a whole book without being a part of a compilation of some kind. Epic poems are and exception because of their length.

Of course none of this is set in stone, because the instructor/boss/client trumps all formatting conventions in the end. lol

Answer 15

If it is the title of the song, you use italics, if you are quoting lyrics, then you use quotation marks. Simple.

Answer 16

I disagree. Song titles go in quotation marks. I'm fairly sure of this.

Answer 17

Okay I just pulled out and dusted off my Gregg Reference Manual and here is what it has to say ab out the matter:

Use quotation marks around the titles that represent only part of a complete published work--for example the titles of chapters, lessons, topics, sections, and parts within the book; titles of articles and feature columns in newspapers and magazines; and titles of essays and short poems. Also use quotation marks around the titles of lectures, sermons, conference themes, presentations, events, brochures, and albums. [Italicize or underline titles of complete published works.] (p. 69, para. 242)

Use quotation marks around the titles of complete but unpublished works, such as manuscripts, dissertations, and reports. (p. 69, para. 243)

Use quotation marks around the titles of songs, and other musical compositions and around the titles of individual segments or programs that are part of a larger television or radio series. [Series titles are italicized or underlined.] (p. 69, para. 244)

So there you go.