When you are citing the name of a book in your text, are you supposed to underline it or italicize it?

Question

In The Woman Warrior, an autobiography by Maxine Hong Kingston,......

do I underline, italicize, or put quotation marks around The Woman Warrior?

Answer 1

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I'm assuming that you're using MLA format in your paper.

Titles of books are underlined. Titles of short stories should be in quotation marks.

Source(s):

http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/DocMLAC…
http://www.wtps.org/wths/imc/MLA_Style/p…

Answer 2

Books should be underlined.

Answer 3

Book titles usually are italicized.

http://www.library.cornell.edu/resrch/ci…
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c0…

Hope this helps.