Editorial Manual 

Italics

Italics are used for the following:

• Foreign words that do not appear in the online Oxford Dictionary or in the spelling list of the Editorial Manual
• The titles of laws and decrees in a foreign language
• The titles of court cases, e.g. Corfu Channel case, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland v. Albania
• The titles of books, publications, CD-ROMs, periodicals, newspapers, films, plays, radio and television programmes, podcast series and works of art
• The names of ships and other vessels, e.g. HMS Frolic, the British ship Frolic; SS United States, the United States; MV Helena; the submarine Le Redoutable
• Scientific names of animals and plants at the genus and species taxonomic levels, e.g. Rupicapra pyrenaica ornata, Rosa multiflora
  Note: Families (e.g. "Bovidae"), orders (e.g. "Artiodactyla"), classes (e.g. "Mammalia"), phyla (e.g. "Chordata") and kingdoms (e.g. "fauna") are not italicized (for further information, see The Chicago Manual of Style)
• Variables in mathematical expressions (for further information, see The Chicago Manual of Style)

Note: An italicized title used within an italicized title or heading should remain italicized and be enclosed in quotation marks. Other italicized terms (e.g. non-English words, species names, ship names) used within an italicized title or heading should be set in roman.

Italics are not used for the following:

• Emphasis
• Non-English names of organizations, institutions and corporations

For rules on the use of italics in resolutions, see Basic documents/Resolutions and other formal decisions of United Nations organs/Drafting and editing.

Bold print

In running text, bold print is used only for conclusions and recommendations in documents submitted to legislative bodies for consideration and action (see General Assembly resolution 52/214, sect. B, para. 25).