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Jacobpressures Posted 20 years ago
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When should a title be italicized?

0Here is another interesting question. From what i understand, italics replaced the need for underlining for books and using quotation marks for periodicals. Is this true.02br
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00What about leaflets or handouts. 02br
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00"The tracking form and Dental Progress Notes were changed." 02br
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00Dental Progress Notes may not even need to be capitalized. But the top of the page says, "Dental Progress Note."02br
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00Sooo.... Is this a title of a document or just a name that should be in lower case?02br
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00What about subheading in an article. Should they be italicized? "Under the subheading Job Losses in 2005..."02br
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00Here is another interesting situation.02br
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00"The Adult Medicine History and Physical Form, Nursing Assessment and Provider Peer Review forms were revised in 2005."02br
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00Do any of these forms need italicizing? Or do the not even need to be capitalized? All of these are simply forms in the medical records for our patients. It think they should be lower case and not even considered for italics.02br
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00When i was in school we used to set book titles off with commas. This does not seem to be typical, however. 02br
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00For example, "Carlos Muno published the book, 01i00Math and Statistics02i00, in 2005." Most leave out the commas. 02br
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00This becomes practical where you have question marks and exclamation points at the end of a title. For example, "Many people have found the following article, 01i00How Can You Better Understand Your Doctor?, 02i00helpful in the January 4, 1990 01i00Awake!02i00 magazine. In this case it is better to leave off the commas.02br
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00But what about a series of articles?02br
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00"For more information, please review the 01i00Young People Ask...02i00 articles 01i00How Can I Cope with Acne?02i00, 01i00Twelve Reasons Why You Should See a Dentist!, 02i00and 01i00What Does Current Medical Research Say?"02i02br
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00In such cases, commas after a punctuation marks can't be avoided.02br
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00thanks for your comments!0-
  

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0 01blockquote 01cite 10Jacobpressures12cite 12blockquote 11font 00I believe that usage has changed all rules or suggestions about this question. When I was in school 100 years ago, the title of a book, newspaper or document published as an entity was 01u 00underlined 02u 00or 01i 00in italics02i 00. , were in "quotes".

  • 0 01blockquote 01cite 10Jacobpressures12cite 12blockquote 11font 00I believe that usage has changed all rules or suggestions about this question.
  • When I was in school 100 years ago, the title of a book, newspaper or document published as an entity was 01u 00underlined 02u 00or 01i 00in italics02i 00.
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01cite10Jacobpressures12cite12blockquote
11font00I believe that usage has changed all rules or suggestions about this question. When I was in school 100 years ago, the title of a book, newspaper or document published as an entity was 01u00underlined 02u00or 01i00
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Typographic style varies for title case, use of italics, and reference conventions. Underline used to be used in place of italics on typewriters but now it indicates a hyperlink. Some will use both quotes and italic, or underline and italic, which is simply "Bad."

Many book publishers refer to the Chicago Manual of Style.

You can also refer to other
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Italics did not replace the need for underlines. The opposite, in fact, since italic fonts have been around since about 1501 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italic_type#History ). When typewriters were introduced, they had one "font" and so u

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