Handbook of style in use at the Riverside Press/Italics
ITALICS
Italicize—
Words and phrases to which it is desired to lend emphasis.
Words and phrases from foreign languages, occurring in the text, except when they are quoted, or form part of a conversation. Do not italicize foreign words of everyday occurrence. Words in the following list need not be italicized:—[1]
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Titles of books, pamphlets, etc., in prefaces, introductions, footnotes, and end-notes, and in Educational Department publications, unless otherwise indicated, in both text and footnotes. Also in the text in cases where the copy is so marked, and special instructions have been given to follow the copy.
Names of genera and species in zoological and botanical matter, and names of stars in constellations in astronomical matter. Medical terms are not italicized.
The words See and See also, when used for purposes of cross-reference in indexes.
Letters used to indicate subdivisions; as, (a) (b) (c). And a, b, c, etc., affixed to figures; as, ii4a.
Letters used in algebraic and other mathematical work.
Letters in mottoes to illustrations, or in the text referring to corresponding letters in accompanying illustrations.
References to particular letters; as “the letter a”; “the cockney dropping of the h.”
The word continued in headlines or titles; and To be continued at the end of an installment of a serial in periodicals.
The words, phrases, and abbreviations used in literary and legal references, and in indicating English money, as specified in the section on Abbreviations, pages 6 and 7.
- ↑ See also the list of Latin abbreviations on page 7 supra.