I came across your help blog by mistake. I hope you can help me, even if you are not British. When one writes in English about published materials, when does one italicize and when does one implement the quotation marks? Also, which letters does one capitalize when one writes a title? English Student from Roma
Caro ESR,
It didn't take a poliziotto with a magnifying glass to discern your preference for British English. The BBC has a style guide, and perhaps The London Times has one as well. However, if you're willing to settle for mere brilliance, you might want to invest in The
Use quotation marks around titles of short stories, magazine & journal articles, essays, short poems, poems whose titles are their first lines, book reviews, manuscripts in collections, chapters within texts.
Use italics for titles of books, magazines, journals, long poems, plays, films, works of art.
Always capitalize the first and last word of a title. Then, capitalize all words except articles, prepositions, coordinating conjunctions, the word "to" in an infinitive verb. (Here's another case of style choice. Some publishers prefer to capitalize all prepositions of five letters or more.)
Cari saluti a Roma.
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