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For example, non-English names listed as translations in the lead of an article should be italicized, e.g. Nuremberg (German: Nürnberg). Non-English names of works should be italicized just like those in English are, e.g. Les Liaisons dangereuses.
The names of ships: "The Queen Mary sailed last night." Foreign words, including the Latin binomial nomenclature in the taxonomy of living organisms: "A splendid coq au vin was served"; "Homo sapiens". The names of newspapers and magazines: "My favorite magazine is Psychology Today, and my favorite newspaper is the Chicago Tribune."
For titles of books, articles, poems, and so forth, use italics or quotation marks following the guidance for titles. Italics can also be added to mark up non-English terms (with the {} template), for an organism's scientific name, and to indicate a words-as-words usage.
I would like to italicize Cyrillic, in references to academic publications, because the italic is not used as "distinction from the surrounding material", as you phrase it, but to convey meaningful information to the reader of the citation: when we cite a chapter in a book, or an article in a journal, we leave the chapter or article name ...
A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name. A numeric character reference uses the format &#nnnn; or &#xhhhh; where nnnn is the code point in decimal form, and hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form.
The name of an individual work within the series name: the Star Wars franchise, named for the Star Wars film; the Three Colours trilogy, named for films with the prefix Three Colours. Do not capitalize or italicize descriptive terms that are not part of an official series title (as with "franchise" and "trilogy" in those two examples).
Looks like you answered your own question. Names of Web sites don’t get italicized. --Rob Kennedy 08:16, 26 March 2007 (UTC) Well, this question has come up before, but it needs to be addressed on the project page. Web site titles ought to be italicized because they are stand-alone works like everything else on the italicized list.
Formal titles of franchises are proper names, but not italicized unless they coincide with the name of a work in the franchise that would itself be italicized. We would italicize this for the same reason we would italicize in this statement: "It was an elaborate Great Gatsby theme party costume", but not in this one: "It was an elaborate Middle ...