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Hey bab3s! How do you punctuate the title of an article in your paper's title?

That's kinda confusing so for example: Response to (title of article I'm responding to)

Would you italicize it, put it in quotation marks, or leave it blank? Cause i dunno and G00gle ain't helpin me :(

Thank you!

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The title of an article in a paper is placed inside quotation marks. A colon follows the author's name and is followed by the date. If the parenthetical citation directly follows its corresponding text, then no other punctuation is used (<i>Author 1, Date</i>). If there are multiple authors, only the senior author's name appears in the title (<i>(1st Author 2, 3)</i>) with all names listed after it in normal order. The usual rules for bibliography entries apply to separate publications by the same author(s) in one year (<i>"Article Title"</i>, Year)

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