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Titles in quotation marks that include (or in unusual cases consist of) something that requires italicization for some other reason than being a title, e.g. a genus and species name, or a non-English phrase, or the name of a larger work being referred to, also use the needed italicization, inside the quotation marks: "Ferromagnetic Material in ...
The English-language titles of compositions (books and other print works, songs and other audio works, films and other visual media works, paintings and other artworks, etc.) are given in title case, in which every word is given an initial capital except for certain less important words (as detailed at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters ...
True titles are specific to a single work. These are titles given by the composer, much as an author titles a novel. True titles are always italicized: From me flows what you call time; Pelléas et Mélisande; When true titles are mixed with generic titles, as is often the case in overtures and suites, only the true title is italicized. The ...
Following a question on the Village Pump, I've noticed that there's a bit of a gap/conflict regarding our title style for works of visual art. The main page of the Manual of Style indicates that titles of "works of visual art" should be in italics. On the other hand, this page tells us that the names of statues should appear in quotation marks ...
The Chicago Manual of Style article argues that we should only italicize series titles when they're the official title of a collected work, though, or possibly if they're also the title of an individual work, meaning we should write The Chronicles of Amber and The Lord of the Rings, the Harry Potter series and the Dragaera series.
In books and other works, the subtitle is an explanatory title added by the author to the title proper of a work. [1] Another kind of subtitle, often used in the past, is the alternative title, also called alternate title, traditionally denoted and added to the title with the alternative conjunction "or", hence its appellation.
This is the Styletips project, which gives useful advice to editors on writing style and formatting in bite-size chunks from the Manual of Style and related pages. For the complete schedule of Styletips, see below. Please place suggestions on the Talk page. The objective is to keep the focus of each tip narrow and to express it simply and briefly.
Use italics when writing about words as words, or letters as letters (to indicate the use–mention distinction). Examples: The term panning is derived from panorama, which was coined in 1787. Deuce means 'two'. (Linguistic glosses go in single quotation marks.) The most common letter in English is e.