Bold and italics

Try to limit the use of bold and italics to the strict minimum. The use of bold, for example, to highlight key phrases in the text is best avoided. In general, use italics sparingly and avoid using it for emphasis, as too much becomes counter-productive.

Do not use italics and quotation marks together.

In English the use of italics is restricted to:

• titles of books, plays and films;
• titles of newspapers and periodicals;
• foreign words and phrases (e.g. Länder, Mitbestimmung, perestroika, carte blanche, per se, inter alia) apart from those that have been assimilated into the English language such as, arguably, inter alia.

Extensive use of bold and italics will be stripped out at the production stage.