For a book title do u underline it and use parentheses?

Question

book Ex: Castaway Kid

is It "castaway Kid"

or underlined?

Answer 1

Lose the parentheses and quotation marks. If possible, you need to use italics for book titles. If you don't have the capability to use italics, then you need to underline the title. (The underline option was what we used "back in the day" when papers and manuscripts were typed on a typewriter.)

So... Castaway Kid should either be underlined or set in italics.

Answer 2

Neither! You use Italic text for a book title. Quotes if for part of a book, like a short story in a short story collection.

The first letter is supposed to be capital as well.

Answer 3

I"m not sure, I think it depends....

but your saying parenthesis when you mean quotes

Answer 4

Your example is correct. Underlining is unnecessary, parentheses are optional. Capitols are a must.

Answer 5

Book titles are underlined, articles and short stories are put in quote marks.

Answer 6

The standard in publishing and academics is to italicize the title.

Answer 7

The book title is italicized if it is typed (on a computer, duh).

The title is underlined if you are hand-writing your essay (assuming it's an essay). <people can't really make their writing italicized, so they use underlines instead>

The title is only put in quotation marks when it is the title of a poem.

To play it safe, just underline it, it works for any title (except poems)