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Capitalization and italics of titles in references will vary depending on what kind of resource is involved.

In the notes below:

• Sentence case capitalization means that you capitalize only the first word of the title and the subtitle (sentence case capitalization) and all proper nouns.
• Title case capitalization means that you capitalize all major words

Books and reports

- Italics: titles and subtitles

- Capitalization: sentence case capitalization

- Sample:

Credit unions in Canada: IBISWorld industry report 52213CA (report title)

Periodical Titles

- Italics: titles and subtitles

- Capitalization: title case capitalization

- Samples:

International Business Review (journal title)

BC Business (magazine title)

Article titles

- Italics: do not italicize

- Capitalization: sentence case capitalization

- Sample:

Missing title

Sometimes a source has no clear title -- this can happen with sources such as tables or maps generated from searches within some databases.

In such cases, you should write a very brief description of the resource within square brackets containing information that would help your reader find or recreate the same source (table, map, etc.) For example, your square brackets might include the variables you searched for to create a table.

Example: [Lay's Lightly Salted for Canada M&F age 12+ by province].

Series

If it looks like a report is part of a series then list the series title first and the report title after separated by a colon.

Example: Country reports: Mexico
Note: there is no space before the colon but there is a space after the colon.