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Note that the generic portion of the common name or nickname—"Symphony", in this case—is not italicized. Any of these methods may be used; however, usage should be consistent within an article. Song titles are enclosed in quotes. True titles of song cycles are italicized. Non-English song titles are not italicized.
WP:Citing sources § Citation style permits the use of pre-defined, off-Wikipedia citation styles within Wikipedia, and some of these expect sentence case for certain titles (usually article and chapter titles). Title case should not be imposed on such titles under such a citation style consistently used in an article.
Use italics for the scientific names of plants, animals, and all other organisms except viruses at the genus level and below (italicize Panthera leo and Retroviridae, but not Felidae). The hybrid sign is not italicized (Rosa × damascena), nor is the "connecting term" required in three-part botanical names (Rosa gallica subsp. officinalis).
When italics could cause confusion (such as when italics are already being heavily used in the page for some other purpose, e.g., many non-English words and phrases), double quotation marks instead may be used to distinguish words as words ("Just Say No" was an advertising campaign).
If the citations were formatted with citation templates, then there is no rule, because the citation templates are based on the whim of the last editor to change each of them. I often use APA style. It has two rules, described on page 95, section 3.13. Capitalize major words in titles of books and articles within the body of the paper ...
Citations for newspaper articles typically include: byline (author's name), if any; title of the article; name of the newspaper in italics; city of publication (if not included in name of newspaper) date of publication; page number(s) are optional and may be substituted with negative number(s) on microfilm reels
@Ibadibam: #2 and #1, respectively. #2 because the quotation marks are superfluous, the classes are not works, and it's not done that way off-wiki. E.g., on the title sheet for a university paper, it would read something like "Spinal Conditions of Manx Cats", Jan Smith, 12 June 2016, Mammal Anatomy 435, Prof. Pat Garcia (some or all on ...
For many songs - two particular examples which come to mind are classical songs and non-English language songs - the citation of the first line of a song may help in identifying a song. This is particularly key with traditional songs/folk songs, but also with non-ABC-alphabet Indian/Far East songs which may have an English ABC "marketing name ...