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Use {{Italic title}} to italicize the part of the title before the first parenthesis. Use {{Italic disambiguation}} to italicize the part of the title in the parenthesis. Use the {{DISPLAYTITLE:}} magic word or {{Italic title|string=}} template for titles with a mix of italic and roman text, as at List of Sex and the City episodes and The Hustler.
Per the overall MOS guidance to use logical quotation, punctuation should be placed outside the quotation marks (title formatting) of songs: Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited album includes the songs "Like a Rolling Stone", "Ballad of a Thin Man", and "Desolation Row". Of course, if the song title itself contains punctuation, it goes inside: "Help!"
Use italics for the titles of works (such as books, films, television series, named exhibitions, computer games, music albums, and artworks). The titles of articles, chapters, songs, episodes, storylines, research papers and other short works instead take double quotation marks.
It seems intuitive, but it will take a long time to permeate, I imagine. I usually put whatever style rule I am following in the edit summary, figuring that's a good way for people following that topic, popular music, for instance, to hear about "album titles in italics, song titles in "quotes"" Ortolan88
Use "(singer)" when the person solely sings songs or is mostly known for singing songs (e.g. Ramón (singer)) Use "(musician)" when the person is known for their work in other musical fields, like writing songs or producing music for other artists (e.g. Drake (musician)) Use "(rapper)" if the person is known for rapping (e.g. Diamond (rapper))
Should the titles of short stories published as books use quotation marks or italics? Input at Talk:Graham Downs#Quotes or Italics for book titles? would be appreciated. Thanks! GoingBatty 17:11, 2 July 2014 (UTC) @GoingBatty: Depends on context. If it's being addressed as a short story, quotes; if as a book, italics.
The question of italics for titles of major works in non-Latin scripts has come up before, for example Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Text formatting/Archive 6#More clarity may be needed re titles of works in foreign languages, a discussion that concluded 20 June 2018.
Italics markup is for non-emphasis purposes, such as for book titles and non-English language phrases, as detailed below. Emphasis may be used to draw attention to an important word or phrase within a sentence, when the point or thrust of the sentence may otherwise not be apparent to readers, or to stress a contrast: