Italics

style-usage

AP style treats movie titles as names of creative works, so you must capitalize principal words and treat punctuation as part of the title. In print and digital text that cannot...

style-guide

Whether to underline or quote movie titles depends on the style guide, medium, and publication conventions. In academic and print settings, major style manuals typically recomme...

writing-style

In most modern style guides, essay titles are placed in quotation marks, not italicized. Longer works such as books, journals, and anthologies are typically italicized. These co...

writing-and-editing

Italicizing film titles consistently helps readers recognize the work and signals professionalism in your writing. Across major style guides, feature films and standalone docume...

writing

Knowing how to italicize poems correctly supports clarity, professionalism, and consistency in writing and publishing. This guide explains when to italicize longer poems and boo...

writing-style

Use italics primarily for titles of long works, foreign terms that are not fully assimilated, and to provide emphasis or denote internal thought. In published prose, italics hel...