WAIS Document Retrieval[Style Manual]
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11. ITALIC
(See also ``Abbreviations and Letter Symbols'' and ``Datelines,
Addresses, and Signatures'')
11.1. Italic is sometimes used to differentiate or to give
greater prominence to words, phrases, etc. However, an
excessive amount of italic defeats this purpose and should be
restricted.
Emphasis, foreign words, and titles of publications
11.2. Italic is not used for mere emphasis, foreign words, or
the titles of publications.
11.3. In nonlegal work, ante, post, infra, and supra are
italicized only when part of a legal citation. Otherwise these
terms, as well as the abbreviations id., ibid., op. cit., et
seq., and other foreign words, phrases, and their
abbreviations, are printed in roman.
11.4. When ``emphasis supplied,'' ``emphasis added,'' or
``emphasis ours'' appears in copy, it should not be changed;
but ``underscore supplied'' should be changed to ``italic
supplied.''
11.5. When copy is submitted with instructions to set ``all
roman (no italic),'' these instructions will not apply to
Ordered, Resolved, Be it enacted, etc.; titles following
signatures or addresses; or the parts of datelines which are
always set in italic.
Names of aircraft, vessels, and spacecraft
11.6. The names of aircraft, vessels, and spacecraft are
italicized unless otherwise indicated. In lists set in columns
and in stubs and reading columns of tables consisting entirely
of such names they will be set in roman. Missiles and rockets
will be set in caps and lowercase and will not be italicized.
SS America; the liner America
the Bermuda Clipper
USS Nautilus (submarine)
USS Wisconsin
ex-USS Savannah
USCGS (U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey) ship Pathfinder
C.S.N. Virginia
CG cutter Thetus
the U-7
destroyer 31
H.M.S. Hornet
HS (hydrofoil ship) Denison
MS (motorship) Richard
GTS (gas turbine ship) Alexander
NS (nuclear ship) Savannah
space station Freedom
MV (motor vessel) Havtroll
Freedom 7; Friendship 7 (U.S. spaceships)
West Virginia class or type
the Missouri's (roman ``s'') turret
the U-7's (roman ``s'') deck
but
Air Force One (President's plane)
B-50 (type of plane)
DD-882
LST-1155
MiG; MiG-21
PT-109
F-18 Hornet
F-15 Eagle
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11.7. Names of vessels are quoted in matter printed in other
than lowercase roman.
Sinking of the ``Lusitania''
Sinking of the ``Lusitania''
SINKING OF THE ``LUSITANIA''
SINKING OF THE ``LUSITANIA''
Names of legal cases
11.8. The names of legal cases are italicized, except for the
v. When requested, the names of such cases may be set in roman
with an italic v. In matter set in italic, legal cases are set
in roman with the v. being set roman.
``The Hornet'' and ``The Hood,'' 124 F.2d 45
Smith v. Brown et al.
Smith Bros. case (172 App. Div. 149)
Smith Bros. case, supra
Smith Bros. case
As cited in Smith Bros.
Smith v. Brown et al. (heading)
SMITH v. BROWN ET AL.
(heading)
Durham rule
Brown decision
John Doe v. Richard Roe
but John Doe against Richard Roe
the Cement case
Scientific names
11.9. The scientific names of genera, subgenera, species, and
subspecies (varieties) are italicized, but are set in roman in
italic matter; the names of groups of higher rank than genera
(phyla, classes, orders, families, tribes, etc.) are printed in
roman.
A.s. perpallidus
Dorothia? sp. (roman ``?'')
Tsuga canadensis
Cypripedium parviflorum var. pubescens
the genera Quercus and Liriodendron
the family Leguminosae; the family Nessiteras
rhombopteryx
Measurements of specimens of Cyanoderma erythroptera
neocara
11.10. Quotation marks should be used in place of italic for
scientific names appearing in lines set in caps, caps and small
caps, or boldface, even if there is italic type available in
the series.
Words and letters
11.11. The words Resolved, Resolved further, Provided,
Provided, however, Provided further, And provided further, and
ordered, in bills, acts, resolutions, and formal contracts and
agreements are italicized; also the words To be continued,
Continued on p. --, Continued from p. --, and See and see also
(in indexes and tables of contents only).
Resolved, That (resolution)
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That
[To be continued] (centered; no period)
[Continued from p. 3] (centered; no period)
see also Mechanical data (index entry)
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11.12. All letters (caps, small caps, lowercase, superiors,
and inferiors) used as symbols are italicized. In italic matter
roman letters are used. Chemical symbols (even in italic
matter) and certain other standardized symbols are set in
roman.
nth degree; x dollars
D0.025Vm2~~.7=0.042/
G-1Vm2~~.7
5Cu2S.2(Cu,Fe,Zn)S.2Sb2S3O4
11.13. Letter designations in mathematical and scientific
matter, except chemical symbols, are italicized.
11.14. Letter symbols used in legends to illustrations,
drawings, etc., or in text as references to such material, are
set in italic without periods and are capitalized if so shown
in copy.
11.15. Letters (a), (b), (c), etc., and a, b, c, etc., used
to indicate sections or paragraphs, are italicized in general
work but not in laws and other legal documents.
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