<p> The Use of Italicization in Written English Reference Sheet</p><p>Titles of Major Works</p><p>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:</p><p>Have you read the books Inkheart, Inkspell, and Inkdeath? Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet are the most well-known plays by Shakespeare.</p><p>Do not use italicization with the titles of religious texts such as the Bible, Koran, Torah, Talmud, Bhagavad Gita, and Upanishads.</p><p>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.</p><p>Emphasis</p><p>2. Use italicization to emphasize words and phrases. For example:</p><p>Do not italicize the titles of poems. You named your daughter Moonbeam?!</p><p>Do not overuse italicization as too many italicized words and phrases become tedious as opposed to emphasized.</p><p>Letters and Words as Words</p><p>3. Use italicization to identify letters and words used as words. For example:</p><p>Please revise your essay so that not every sentence begins with the. Up, in, and on are common prepositions in English.</p><p>Linguistic Examples</p><p>4. Use italicization to identify linguistic examples. For example:</p><p>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</p><p>Foreign words and phrases</p><p>5. Use italicization to identify foreign words and phrases. For example:</p><p>El encierro, or running of the bulls, is a Spanish tradition. The German zeitgeist has more subtle meanings in German than in English.</p><p>Do not use italicization with English words of foreign origin.</p><p>My favorite Mexican food is enchiladas. You have quite the laissez-faire attitude.</p>