ABSTRACT
Shakespeare's plays are concerned, but in the case of other writers there has sprung up a habit of giving titles in some form of 'old spelling'. A convention only recently introduced is to reserve italics for the title of a book, however short, provided that it was originally published separately. Works within works, such as the 'Ode to a Nightingale', are now generally referred to in quotation marks, either single or double, though any work that is being frequently cited in the course of a critical discussion is better italicized. Sheet is largely technical, e.g. on the proper transliteration of titles and authors names from foreign languages, and is intended in the first place for contributions to American journals or the thesis of Ph.D. If the author's name has been mentioned in the text it need not be repeated in the footnote, but at some point the first name and/or initials must appear.
