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An interpolated name is italicized and placed in non-italic parentheses (round brackets); some examples are after a genus name to indicate a subgenus, after a genus group to denote an aggregate of species, after a species name to mean an aggregate of subspecies, after a genus and the word "section" or "sect." to provide a botanical genus ...
Do not italicize (but do capitalize) taxa higher than genus (exceptions are below). Virus taxonomy is a partial exception; current scientific practice is to italicize all ranks of taxa (even those higher than genus; e.g., Ortervirales, an order, or Herpesviridae, a family). However, this should only be done in articles about viruses or virology ...
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 ).
Not sure about "viruses only" - just "viruses" Italics - most discussion of viruses mentions hosts, vectors etc, so there are almost always italicized binoms around. Not sure if this affects anything "Do not independently italicize name parts" agree but not style issue.
Specific references to viral taxonomic ranks: orders, families, subfamilies, genera, and species should be written in italics with the first letter capitalized (e.g. genus :Ebolavirus belongs to family Filoviridae, order Mononegavirales) NOTE: As of January 2018, this rule for italicizing directly contradicts (in part) the current MOS:ITALICS.
Please report here any problems with the italicization of virus taxon names in a taxobox that uses Virusbox. Automatic italicization of the name of the taxobox and the title of the page are not yet correct. Virus taxon names are not italicized correctly when viewing taxonomy templates – a task for the future. Done.
Even if you don't edit math, the math font can be used to greatly improve the legibility of Greek text which us non-Greeks find hard to read in san-serif, with all the little shapely clues removed. Compare the typewriter , math , and default san-serif fonts, below:
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 ...