Citing Titles in Different Media

When citing a song, what do you use?

• Italics

• Quotation Marks

Answer explanation

Use quotation marks for smaller things. An album would get italics.

When citing a painting, what do you use?

• Italics

• Quotation Marks

When citing a television episode from a larger TV series, what do you use?

• Italics

• Quotation Marks

When citing a film, what do you use?

• Italics

• Quotation Marks

For a longer work, you should use _____ and for a shorter work, you should use _____

• quotation marks; italics

• underline; italics

• italics; quotation marks

• bold; highlight

When citing the song "Blowin' in the Wind" by Bob Dylan in text, which is the correct way to structure your parenthetical?

• (Dylan 1:14)

• (Bob Dylan)

• (“Blowin’ in the Wind")

Answer explanation

Aim to apply the same format as with a novel - (author's last name + location).

In a book, the location is the page number, but in a song, the location is the time stamp.

When in text citing the scene from the 1:25-1:30 minute mark in the film Paddington, which is the correct way to structure your parenthetical?

• (1:25-1:30)

• (Paddington 1:25-1:30)

• (Paul King)

Answer explanation

As always the location of the evidence is key, but because a film/television episode has so many more cooks in the kitchen, it doesn't follow the cite the creator format.

Instead, do title in italics + time stamps

When citing a quote from Sylvia Plath's poem "Metaphors" in text, which is the correct way to structure your parenthetical?

• (Plath, Sylvia)

• (Plath, line 12)

• (“Metaphors")

Answer explanation

Aim to apply the same format as with a novel - (author's last name + location).

In a book, the location is the page number, but in a song, the location is the time stamp.

When citing the painting Guernica by Pablo Picaso in text, which is the correct way to structure your parenthetical?

• (Pablo, 1937)

• ("Guernica")

• (Picaso)

Answer explanation

Aim to apply the same format as with a novel - (author's last name + location).

In a book, the location is the page number, but in a song, the location is the time stamp.

When you introduce a media source, you should integrate the _____ in your sentence

• time stamps and the date you found it

• title, creator, and release date (year)

• run time, the producer, and the name of the anthology

• release date and city of publication