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When true titles are mixed with generic titles, as is often the case in overtures and suites, only the true title is italicized. The generic portion of the title is not italicized and should always be in English even if the true portion of the title is in another language. Overture to The Bartered Bride; L'Arlésienne Suite No. 1
Use {{Italic title}} to italicize the part of the title before the first parenthesis. Use {{Italic disambiguation}} to italicize the part of the title in the parenthesis. Use the {{DISPLAYTITLE:}} magic word or {{Italic title|string=}} template for titles with a mix of italic and roman text, as at List of Sex and the City episodes and The Hustler.
It seems intuitive, but it will take a long time to permeate, I imagine. I usually put whatever style rule I am following in the edit summary, figuring that's a good way for people following that topic, popular music, for instance, to hear about "album titles in italics, song titles in "quotes"" Ortolan88
The Chicago Manual of Style article argues that we should only italicize series titles when they're the official title of a collected work, though, or possibly if they're also the title of an individual work, meaning we should write The Chronicles of Amber and The Lord of the Rings, the Harry Potter series and the Dragaera series.
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 ).
(That said, any citation style that confusing is a prime candidate for a change-of-citation-style discussion on the article's talk page, per WP:CITEVAR). — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 05:13, 19 May 2019 (UTC) Italics, with some caveats. Websites are works, so should generally be italicised where there's an official website title.
For many songs - two particular examples which come to mind are classical songs and non-English language songs - the citation of the first line of a song may help in identifying a song. This is particularly key with traditional songs/folk songs, but also with non-ABC-alphabet Indian/Far East songs which may have an English ABC "marketing name ...
Text formatting in citations should follow, consistently within an article, an established citation style or system. Options include either of Wikipedia's own template-based Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2, and any other well-recognized citation system. Parameters in the citation templates should be accurate.