Italics can be used when you want to emphasize a certain word or phrase in a sentence in informal writing. This would not be appropriate for academic writing, but is common in many other types of writing. Is The Great Gatsby underlined or italicized? In most cases, you should italicizeRead More →
Titles of books, plays, films, periodicals, databases, and websites are italicized. Place titles in quotation marks if the source is part of a larger work. Articles, essays, chapters, poems, webpages, songs, and speeches are placed in quotation marks. How do you punctuate Hamlet? Example: Hamlet is one of Shakespeare’s mostRead More →
Italics are used for large works, names of vehicles, and movie and television show titles. Quotation marks are reserved for sections of works, like the titles of chapters, magazine articles, poems, and short stories. How do you write the title of an article in an essay? A general rule ofRead More →
The scientific names of species are italicized. The genus name is always capitalized and is written first; the specific epithet follows the genus name and is not capitalized. Does streptococci need to be italicized? Editor’s Note: When streptococcus is used generically to refer to any member of the genus Streptococcus,Read More →
Latin words should usually be printed in italics (e.g. ex ante), but certain common Latin phrases take roman (refer to the New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors for italic or roman style). Latin phrases are not hyphenated when used adjectivally, e.g. ad hoc meeting. What should always be italicizedRead More →
The classic convention for titling an image is to identify the subject (name the person, place or thing) and add the date of creation: if it’s a photograph use the date of exposure; if it’s a painting use the date of completion; if it’s a composite photograph default to theRead More →
Ex-post is common in statistics, particularly due to the frequent use of ex-ante and ex-post analysis in business and ex-post analysis in the social sciences. It is commonly not italicized, and I would keep the hyphen, though many do not. Do treaties need to be italicized? Do not underline, italicize,Read More →
Full titles of Acts, Ordinances and legal cases always take initial capitals. First references to an Act or Ordinance should always give the title in full (including the date), and be written in italics. Subsequent references to an Act or Ordinance can be in plain text with the date omitted.Read More →
Titles of full works like books or newspapers should be italicized. Titles of short works like poems, articles, short stories, or chapters should be put in quotation marks. How do you quote a title of an article? In general, you should italicize the titles of long works, like books, movies,Read More →