Grammatically Correct: The writer's essential guide to punctuation ...

GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT
necessary only if a word is likely to be unfamiliar.
Note: Never italicize foreign proper nouns-names of people or
places.
SETTING OFF SPECIAL TEXT
Italic type is used to set off a variety of special words. The full range
is too numerous to cover; this section reviews only the more common
applications. Specialized areas such as scientific, mathematical and
legal writing will all have their own particular designations.
TERMINOLOGY
In formal writing, a new term is often set off on its first appearance
in some typographically distinct way. The usual strategies are to
either enclose it in quotation marks (see page 1 77) or to put it in
italic or boldface type. Other, less common options are underlining
or using color.
Capital goods are industrial products that are long-lived and expensive,
such as heavy machinery and vehicles; expense items are industrial
products that are cheaper and quickly consumed, such as office supplies
and paper products.
After its first occurrence, the term should appear in regular type.
TITLES
It is usual to italicize the names of ships and space vehicles, and
the titles of books, newspapers, magazines, films, plays, operas,
and record albums or CDs. For titles of short stories, poems, book
chapters, magazine or journal articles and songs, it is more common
to use quotation marks instead. Note, though, that these are conventions,
not absolutes. It is acceptable to use either italics or quotation
marks for any of the above, or you may sometimes choose to present
a title, such as the name of a newspaper or journal, without setting
it off in any special way other than initial capital letters.
Style guides differ as to how titles should be presented in bibliographies.
For example, one guide may specify that you must italicize
titles of books and journals, but not the titles of articles within
journals; a second, to italicize everything; a third, to not italicize at
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