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Their constituent parts, such as Book of Ruth, New Testament, or Gospel of Matthew, are not italicized either, as such titles are generally traditional rather than original ones. However, the titles of specific published versions of religious texts should be italicized: Authorized King James Version and New Edition of the Babylonian Talmud.
Italics should be used for the following types of names and titles, or abbreviations thereof: Major works of art and artifice, such as albums, books, video games, films, musicals, operas, symphonies, paintings, sculptures, newspapers, journals, magazines, epic poems, plays, television programs or series, radio shows, comics and comic strips.
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.
Here's a convincing argument that a game is a game, and not a major artistic work whose title should be italicized: “Game Over: On italicizing the titles of video games.” Worth a read. —Michael Z. 2012-01-24 16:52 z. His argument wouldn't carry much weight here, as we actually do italicize board game titles such as Monopoly.
So we should italicize book titles, movie titles and various other titles, but not roleplaying game system titles, such as Hero System, Rolemaster, GURPs, Powers & Perils or Hârnmaster? I think this is an oversight; the titles of RPG rules systems (but not the names of worlds, such as Hârn or Tekumel - an important distinction) deserve ...
Catalogues indicated by a name that is not an actual book title are not italicized. Articles about a set of works belonging to the same genre, by a single author or composer should not be italicized. Articles about a particular collected edition of a composer or author should be italicized. Abbreviations of italicized titles should also be ...
I would like to italicize Cyrillic, in references to academic publications, because the italic is not used as "distinction from the surrounding material", as you phrase it, but to convey meaningful information to the reader of the citation: when we cite a chapter in a book, or an article in a journal, we leave the chapter or article name ...
Hello. I just wanted to let you know that when you add the title of a book, film, album, magazine, or TV series to an article, it should be italicized by adding two single apostrophes ('') on both sides. Titles of television episodes, short stories and songs should be placed within quotation marks.