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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
Italicising Small Quotes
I was told by an editor to italicise small amounts song lyrics, but not small quotes from the dictionary/books i.e. "our pale blue dot". Does anyone know why this is? I tend to always indent and italicise lager quotes.
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Publications need to have articles that are consistent with each other, so they adopt a common style guide. The style guide can be one of the major ones, or just arbitrary for that publication. So follow the editor's request -- it is probably according to their own style guide.
- Publications need to have articles that are consistent with each other, so they adopt a common style guide.
- The style guide can be one of the major ones, or just arbitrary for that publication.
- So follow the editor's request -- it is probably according to their own style guide.
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Publications need to have articles that are consistent with each other, so they adopt a common style guide.
The style guide can be one of the major ones, or just arbitrary for that publication. So follow the editor's request -- it is probably according to their own style guide.
The style guide can be one of the major ones, or just arbitrary for that publication. So follow the editor's request -- it is probably according to their own style guide.
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AlpheccaStarsPublications need to have articles that are consistent with each other, so they adopt a common style guide. The style guide can be one of the major ones, or just arbitrary for that publication. So follow the editor's request -- it is probably according to their own style guide.I'm not sure if it's because in the other instances the small quotes a
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