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Non-English names of works should be italicized just like those in English are, e.g. Les Liaisons dangereuses. When a name should not be italicized, language markup can still ensure proper pronunciation in screen readers, by using the |italic=unset parameter: {{lang|de|italic=unset|Nürnberg}}.
Italicize names of books, films, TV series, music albums, paintings, and ships—but not short works like songs or poems, which should be in quotation marks. Place a full stop (a period) or a comma before a closing quotation mark if it belongs as part of the quoted material ( She said, "I'm feeling carefree . " ); otherwise, put it after ( The ...
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 ).
The question of italics for titles of major works in non-Latin scripts has come up before, for example Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Text formatting/Archive 6#More clarity may be needed re titles of works in foreign languages, a discussion that concluded 20 June 2018.
Heading names: Editors may use any reasonable section and subsection names that they choose. [ k ] The most frequent choice is "References". Other options, in diminishing order of popularity, are "Notes", "Footnotes" or "Works cited", although these are more often used to distinguish between multiple end-matter sections or subsections.
Headings and subheadings can be added by clicking Advanced then Heading in the extra toolbar line which now appears. Selecting "Level 2" will format text as a main heading, the most frequently used subdivision of any page. "Level 3" gives you a subheading for a Level 2 heading, and so on.
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 ...
However, "Manual of Style" is a proper noun here, the name of a document called "Manual of Style" (like the name of a movie or book), and therefore correctly capitalized in a sentence case heading. This has nothing to do with the use of title case as an additional form of emphasis for section headings (which are generally not proper nouns).