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Italics and Underlining

Italics is slightly slanted type. In this sentence, the word happiness appears in italics. In handwritten material, each word or letter that should be in italics is underlined.

493.1 In Titles

Italicize (or underline) the titles of books, plays, book-length poems, magazines, radio and television programs, movies, CDs, videos, the names of aircraft and ships, and newspapers.

Biomes (book)

Scientific American (magazine)

SportsCenter (TV program)

Oppenheimer (movie)

GUTS (album)

Orion (space ship)