Highlight/Emphasising Text
Bold
When writing for the web or other digital media, you may use bold to emphasise parts of your text you wish to stand out. Do not do this in print collateral.
Punctuation which follows bold text should not itself bebold (unless the whole sentence is in bold type).
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You should ensure all URLs (web addresses), email addresses, hashtags and other social media unique identifiers are in bold.
Italic
Use italics to flag parts of your text which are different from that surrounding them. Titles of books, journals, plays, films, musical works and so on should be given in italics if they are a complete published work.
If the title includes “The” or “A” as the start of the title, italicise that as well.
The Wizard of Oz used colour photography in a very innovative way.
Use italics for foreign words and phrases embedded within your text, including species and genera names in Latin.
Plurals, past tenses or other grammatical changes to italicised titles or phrases should only be italicised up to the end of the title or phrase – do not italicise the s, ed and so on – and punctuation should only be italicised if it is part of the title, quote and so on. Note that it is not always easy to tell whether a full stop/comma is in italic. In many cases it is easier to reword a sentence to avoid this situation.
The drama society is putting on three Macbeths this year.
Never use italics for project titles, lecture titles or university rankings.
Underlining
Avoid using underlining for emphasis – this generally indicates hyperlinks, especially on web pages, and its use can be confusing.