M5-a Italicize titles of long or self-contained works.

Titles of books, newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, pamphlets, long poems, movies, television and radio programs, long musical compositions, plays, comic strips, and works of art are italicized.

Note: The Bible and its divisions are not italicized.

Titles of short works or works contained in other works are not italicized but are placed in quotation marks. (See also P6-c.)

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M5-b Italicize words used as words and letters and numbers used as themselves.

M5-c Italicize names of planes, ships, and other vehicles; foreign words not commonly used in English; and, on occasion, words that need special emphasis.

Resist the temptation to emphasize words by putting them in bold type. In most writing situations, italics provides enough emphasis.

M5-d Italicize when appropriate, but not in place of or in addition to other conventional uses of punctuation and mechanics.

Eliminate any unusual uses of italics.