Thread:LilyLacreag/@comment-11261513-20130204233646

I noticed that you've been putting titles of short stories in italics instead of quotes, like books, films and television series. This, while it may look better, is actually incorrect.

Here are a couple of links that outline which you should italicise and which you should put in quotes:

http://writingonthewallblog.blogspot.com.au/2007/06/quotes-or-italics.html http://aldenschools.org/webpages/asobol/resources.cfm?subpage=853740 http://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/53354771?width=1100 http://www.writersrelief.com/blog/2008/03/properly-format-your-titles-underlines-italics-and-quotes/

So as you can see in the English language, titles of books, films and TV series are italicised, whereas titles of episodes, short stories, poems and songs are written in quotes. A rule of thumb is: if it's long (like a book) it should be put in italics, but if it's short (like a short story) then it should be written in quotes. Maybe you weren't taught this way, or got confused, but this is the right way. 