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In popular music, album, mixtape and EP titles should be italicized and song and single titles should be in quotes: "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" by the Beatles was included on their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The names of concert tours are not formatted beyond ordinary capitalization.
Online magazines, newspapers, and news sites with original content should generally be italicized (Salon or HuffPost). Online non-user-generated encyclopedias and dictionaries should also be italicized (Scholarpedia or Merriam-Webster Online). Other types of websites should be decided on a case-by-case basis. [b]
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 ...
Use of italics should conform to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting § Italic type. Do not use articles ( a , an , or the ) as the first word ( Economy of the Second Empire , not The economy of the Second Empire ), unless it is an inseparable part of a name ( The Hague ) or of the title of a work ( A Clockwork Orange , The Simpsons ).
It is not mentioned in the article, but ad campaigns should be italicized also. > Best O Fortuna 22:02, 29 June 2010 (UTC) You should be bold and add it to the article yourself. :) --Devourer09 05:04, 20 August 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Devourer09 (talk • contribs)
A series like The Sandman or Dilbert should be italicized the same as a magazine would be (e.g. Time). However the individual stories within the comic book or series should be within quotes (e.g. "Calliope" from Sandman). —Mike 23:13, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)
"In popular music, album titles should be in italics, and song and single titles should be in quotes (for example The Beatles's song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" comes from their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band). Perhaps you should ask at Wikipedia:Wikiproject Music to be sure. A l i c e 21:27, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I just wanted to let you know that when you add the title of a book, film, album, magazine, or TV series to an article, it should be italicized by adding two single apostrophes ('') on both sides. Titles of television episodes, short stories and songs should be placed within quotation marks.