Learn How to Use Quotation Marks for Titles & Nicknames

Titles of artistic works
Quotation marks, rather than italics, are generally used for the titles of shorter works. Whether these are single or double is again a matter of style:

Short fiction, poetry, etc.: Arthur C. Clarke's “The Sentinel”
Book chapters: The first chapter of 3001: The Final Odyssey is “Comet Cowboy”
Articles in books, magazines, journals, etc.: “Extra-Terrestrial Relays,” Wireless World, October 1945
Album tracks, singles, etc.: David Bowie's “Space Oddity”

Nicknames and false titles
Quotation marks are used to offset a nickname embedded in an actual name, or a false or ironic title embedded in an actual title; for example, Jennifer “J-Lo” Lopez.

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