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The titles of articles, chapters, songs, episodes, storylines, research papers and other short works instead take double quotation marks. Italics are not used for major religious works (the Bible, the Quran, the Talmud). Many of these titles should also be in title case.
Author information may include other terms like "in" and "ex"; these should not be italicized and do not take periods (full points): Acanthocereus (Engelm. ex A. Berger) Britton & Rose. When there are three or more authors, give the first author name (or botanical abbreviation) followed by "et al.", not in italics: [i] Archaeplastida Adl et al ...
The practice is to use a double-hyphen "--" , (not just a long hyphen!!), to distinguish from the historic double-barrelled names that were already in use. ! Morwen - Talk 11:35, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC) Sir, (as for the aristocratic surnames) if both of the original surnames that one of them is comprised of begin with de , does the double-barrelled ...
In article text, do not use a capital letter after a hyphen except for terms that would ordinarily be capitalized in running prose, such as proper names (e.g. demonyms and brand names): Graeco-Roman and Mediterranean-style, but not Gandhi-Like. Letters used as designations are treated as names for this purpose: a size-A drill bit.
This parameter should never hold the names of more than one author. Supports accept-this-as-written markup. Do not use italics in this field, as doing so produces corrupt metadata. first: Given or first names of author; for example: Firstname Middlename or Firstname M. or Firstname M. Sr. Do not wikilink—use author-link instead.
A Citation Style 1 template used to create citations for theses or dissertations submitted to and approved by an educational institution recognized as capable of awarding higher degrees. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template has custom formatting. Parameter Description Type Status Surname of author last last1 surname surname1 author author1 Surname of author. Do not wikilink ...
Every article on Wikipedia with a title in the form "Glossary of subject terms", or similar, is such a glossary, as are the glossary sections inside some articles. These are distinct from outlines, which are titled in the form "Outline of subject" and may also include definitions, but are organized as a hierarchy and use their own style of formatting not covered in this guideline.
If dates are used, the year range is 100 to present without era indication (AD, BC, CE, BCE). In the case where the same author has written more than one work in the same year, a lower-case letter may be appended to the year in the date parameter (|date=July 4, 1997b) or the year parameter (|year=1997b).