Dear Editor of the Springfield Times-Courier, I am writing because your article Local Elementary School Grows A Garden made several errors.

Which option shows the correct format for titles in this sentence?
Dear Editor of the “Springfield Times Courier”, I am writing because your article Local Elementary School Grows A Garden (underlined) made several errors.

Dear Editor of the Springfield Times-Courier(underlined), I am writing because your article “Local Elementary School Grows A Garden” made several errors.

Dear Editor of the Springfield Times Courier (italics), I am writing because your article “Local Elementary School Grows A Garden” made several errors.

Dear Editor of the “Springfield Times Courier”, I am writing because your article Local Elementary School Grows A Garden (italics) made several errors.

1 answer

The correct format for titles in your sentence is:

Dear Editor of the Springfield Times-Courier, I am writing because your article “Local Elementary School Grows A Garden” made several errors.

So the option that best matches this standard (with italics used for the publication title and quotation marks for the article title) is:

Dear Editor of the Springfield Times Courier (italics), I am writing because your article “Local Elementary School Grows A Garden” made several errors.