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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 ...
Article titles cannot contain wiki formatting, such as '', so article titles cannot be italicized in the normal way. This template has the following effects: Titles with no parentheses are fully italicized: Foo → Foo; Talk:Foo → Talk:Foo; Titles which contain parentheses are italicized before the first opening parenthesis: Foo (bar) → Foo ...
The formatting of the title of a pamphlet, which is on the divide between a booklet or short book on the one hand and a leaflet or brochure on the other – specifically, whether to italicize the title or place it within quotation marks – is left to editorial discretion at the article in question.
A title should be a recognizable name or description of the topic, balancing the criteria of being natural, sufficiently precise, concise, and consistent with those of related articles. For formatting guidance see the Wikipedia:Article titles § Article title format section, noting the following:
When we use the italicized title of a work in an adjectival way, it remains italicized, but we do not italicize conventional or off-the-cuff names of franchises (even if they are proper names, even if they are trademarks, whatever). — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ ʌ ⱷ҅ ᴥ ⱷ ʌ ≼ 13:40, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
APA style (also known as APA format) is a writing style and format for academic documents such as scholarly journal articles and books. It is commonly used for citing sources within the field of behavioral and social sciences , including sociology, education, nursing, criminal justice, anthropology, and psychology.
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.
Link, please, to support "The MOS technically says it should be in Roman, because of the double italics...". A Google search within WP gives only this page and Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 43#Captions ("I was mainly pointing out that there isn't a problem with double-italics or somesuch. I don't know what the 'right' answer is, but I ...