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Many musical terms that are commonly used in English are Italian in origin. These terms should not be italicized. For example: attacca; aria; However, bear in mind that not all readers will understand the terms. If in doubt, provide a hyperlink to Italian musical terms used in English. For example: The second section is marked as Adagio
Italics should not be used for non-English text in non-Latin scripts, such as Chinese characters and Cyrillic script, or for proper names, to which the convention of italicizing non-English words and phrases does not apply; thus, a title of a short non-English work simply receives quotation marks.
To display text in italics, enclose it in double apostrophes. The Mary Tyler Moore Show is produced by italicizing around (not inside) the link: ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'' . If the title is also a wikilink but only part of it should be italicized, use italics around or inside a piped link to properly display the title:
Italicize names of books, films, TV series, music albums, paintings, and ships—but not short works like songs or poems, which should be in quotation marks. Place a full stop (a period) or a comma before a closing quotation mark if it belongs as part of the quoted material ( She said, "I'm feeling carefree . " ); otherwise, put it after ( The ...
Use italics when italics would be used in running text; for example, ... the titles of books, films, and other creative works ... are italicized both in ordinary text and in article titles. A discussion regarding a particular article title has raised the following questions which may deserve clarification within the guidelines:
A quick flick through som emusic mags seems to back me up on this - all titles are generally italicized when quoted within a body of text. Graham 05:56, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC) I believe song titles usually go in quotes instead of italics because songs are fairly short.
If you have ever received a citation while driving, you may have wondered about the difference between a speeding citation vs. a ticket. The truth is that these two words can be used interchangeably.
When editors themselves translate text into English, care must always be taken to include the original text, in italics (except for non-Latin-based writing systems, and best done with the {} template which both italicizes as appropriate and provides language metadata); and to use actual and (if at all possible) common English words in the ...