Titles in a list

Keyboard Hound · Feb 15, 2008

I'm doing a project for a formal publication which will require listing as many as thirty to forty newspapers under a column on a chart (not the names listed below). Does anyone know if each newspaper name would need to be underlined in such a list?

Ex.

Column heading (which will be in a box) :

Newspapers
The New York Times
The Roanoke Review
The Chicago Daily

Also, all the "the's" seem worrisome, but the is in most every name of a paper I'll be using. Since, they will not be alphabetized, should the remain at the front of the paper name?

Thanks so much.

IceCreamEmpress · Feb 15, 2008

In print, the names of newspapers and magazines are italicized, not underlined. Underlining is what you do in a manuscript to show "italicize this"--it comes from the days of typewriters that didn't have italics, and some people still do it because it's the way they used to do it.

The New York Times goes under "N", not "T". And you use the "The" if it's in the masthead name of the paper.

Titles in a list

Keyboard Hound

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