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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 ...
Generally, use only one of these styles at a time (do not italicize and quote, or quote and boldface, or italicize and boldface) for words-as-words purposes. Exceptionally, two styles can be combined for distinct purposes, e.g. a film title is italicized and it is also boldfaced in the lead sentence of the article on that film (see WP ...
If the quotation is a single word or a sentence fragment, place the terminal punctuation outside the closing quotation mark. When quoting a full sentence, the end of which coincides with the end of the sentence containing it, place terminal punctuation inside the closing quotation mark. Miller wanted, he said, "to create something timeless".
If the subject of the page is normally italicized (for example, a work of art, literature, album, or ship) then its first mention should be both bold and italic text; if it is usually surrounded by quotation marks, the title should be bold but the quotation marks should not:
Looking through MoS-T, I see that ship names are italicized, but there is nothing mentioned about a ship's class. In practice, it appears that a substantial fraction of ship articles have the class name italicized (example HMS Foo, a Bar-class rowboat). There are many examples in naval articles: . Unless group consensus disagrees, I will add ...
The Twilight Zone is italicized because it is a specific title separated from the rest of the text by its italics, which is done because it is the name of a television show. In the case of most proper nouns, even those that incorporate the definite article, it is best to not capitalize it mid-sentence.
If a person is known by a nickname used in lieu of or in addition to a given name, and it is not a common hypocorism [k] of one of their names, or a professional alias, it is usually presented between double quotation marks following the last given name or initial. The quotation marks are not put in lead-section boldface. Example:
The name or names given in the first sentence do not always match the article title. By the design of Wikipedia's software, an article can only have one title. When this title is a name, significant alternative names for the topic should be mentioned in the article, usually in the first sentence or paragraph.