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The Use of Italicization in Written English Reference Sheet
Titles of Major Works
1. Use italicization with titles of major works. Major works include books; magazines, newspapers, journals, and other periodicals; music albums and long musical pieces; full-length plays; long poems; television and radio shows; movies and films; artworks; famous speeches; and pamphlets. For example:
Have you read the books Inkheart, Inkspell, and Inkdeath? Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet are the most well-known plays by Shakespeare.
Do not use italicization with the titles of religious texts such as the Bible, Koran, Torah, Talmud, Bhagavad Gita, and Upanishads.
Do not use italicization with the titles of minor works and parts of whole including short stories; magazine, newspaper, journal, and other periodical articles; short poems; essays; songs; one-act plays; speeches, lectures, and sermons; chapters; short films; and television and radio show episodes.
Emphasis
2. Use italicization to emphasize words and phrases. For example:
Do not italicize the titles of poems. You named your daughter Moonbeam?!
Do not overuse italicization as too many italicized words and phrases become tedious as opposed to emphasized.
Letters and Words as Words
3. Use italicization to identify letters and words used as words. For example:
Please revise your essay so that not every sentence begins with the. Up, in, and on are common prepositions in English.
Linguistic Examples
4. Use italicization to identify linguistic examples. For example:
The object pronoun me is a prepositional complement in the prepositional phrase to me. The verbs should, could, and would are modal verbs. The Use of Italicization in Written English 2 The Use of Italicization in Written English 3
Foreign words and phrases
5. Use italicization to identify foreign words and phrases. For example:
El encierro, or running of the bulls, is a Spanish tradition. The German zeitgeist has more subtle meanings in German than in English.
Do not use italicization with English words of foreign origin.
My favorite Mexican food is enchiladas. You have quite the laissez-faire attitude.