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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 ...
(See WP:Manual of Style/Titles § Italics for details.) Minor works (and any specifically titled subdivisions of italicized major works) are given in double quotation marks not italics, even when the title is not in English. (For details, see § When not to use italics.) These cases are well-established conventions recognized in most style guides.
Titles of major works are capitalized and italicized; titles of short works are capitalized and enclosed in double quotes (per WP:Manual of Style#Capital letters & WP:Manual of Style#Italics; see MOS:CT for capitalization details). Note that elements of The Canterbury Tales have special conventions, described below.
For titles of books, articles, poems, and so forth, use italics or quotation marks following the guidance for titles. Italics can also be added to mark up non-English terms (with the {{ lang }} template), for an organism's scientific name , and to indicate a words-as-words usage.
The Chicago Manual of Style (8.179) advises to place poem titles in quotation marks except for "very long poems" that could be book length which should be italicized. A good suggestion is that a poem of 80 lines or less can be considered a short poem; and poems greater than 80 to 100 lines, a long poem.
Italics are generally used for titles of longer works. Titles of shorter works, such as the following, should be enclosed in double quotation marks: Articles, essays or papers; Chapters of a longer work; Episodes of a television series; Short poems; Short stories; Songs; There are a few cases in which the title should be in neither italics nor ...
Ah, I missed the following: "It is also permissible to add appropriate non-emphatic italics or quotation marks, for example to mark the title of a book or poem within a quotation." You could have quoted that because it is somewhat hidden. Note, however, that it only says permissible, not standard.
Similarly, when the title of an article requires quotation marks in the text (for example, the titles of songs, poems, etc.), the quotation marks should not be bolded in the summary, as they are not part of the title.--Rob Kennedy 18:59, 1 September 2006 (UTC) You are correct. Thanks for clarifying! --Bensin 20:42, 1 September 2006 (UTC)