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Cheers,

Bruce

…according to Robert S. Alley in “James Madison on Religious Liberty”…

Your school probably has its own conventions. Yes, I have used italics for titles, also.

I don’t see why you need a colon there. Of course I don’t see the whole sentence either, but colons are serious business, right up there with a period– they nearly cause a full stop in reading. I would put no punctuation there at all, for the words read smoothly that way. Read it out loud and see.