Use of Italics in APA writing:
(Section4.21, p.104)
The use of italics in APA 6 should be infrequent.
Use italics in the text of your article for titles of books, periodicals, films, videos, TV shows and microfilm publications.
Additional items that may be italicized
- Genera, species and varieties in scientific names.
- Introduction of a new, technical or key term or label (after the term has been used once, do not italicize it with subsequent use).
- Periodical volume numbers in reference lists
- Anchors of a scale
- Letters used in statistical symbols or algebraic variables
- Words that could be misread
- A letter, word or phrase cited as a linguistic example
Do Not use italics for:
- Emphasis (don't put words in quotes for emphasis either)
- Foreign phrases and abbreviations in common English
- Chemical terms
- Trigonometric terms
- Non statistical subscripts to statistical symbols or mathematical expressions
- Greek letters
- Mere Emphasis
- Letters used as abbreviations
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