use bold sparingly to emphasise the part of your text you wish to stand out. This could be someone’s name, a deadline date or another key piece of information
punctuation which follows bold text should not itself be bold
if you are transcribing a speech, you might want to use bold text (or italic text) to emphasise words in writing on which the speaker placed particular emphasis in speech The Man Booker Prize for 2012 was awarded to Hilary Mantel, the second time that she has won. Applications can either be made online or emailed to sample@email.com. The deadline for submissions is noon on 2 April and any applications received after this date will not be considered.
Italic text
use italics to flag part of your text which is different from that surrounding it
titles of books, journals, plays, films, musical works etc should be given in italics if they are a complete published work; if you are referring to an individual short story, song, article etc within a larger publication, use single quotation marks I, Robot contains nine short stories, of which ‘Little Lost Robot’ is my favourite. The number-one single in the hit parade this week is ‘Candy’ by Robbie Williams, from the album Take The Crown.
if the title includes 'The' or ‘A’ as the start of the title, italicise that as well A Tale of Two Cities has perhaps the most famous opening sentence in all of literature.
use italics for foreign words and phrases embedded within your text, including species and genera names in Latin There are nine ex officio members of Council. A seven-sisters rose bush (Rosa multiflora) can be either white or pink.Dante tells us that above the entrance to the Inferno is inscribed Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'entrate.
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' etc – and punctuation should only be italicised if it is part of the title, quote etc. Note that it is not always easy to tell whether a full stop/comma etc is in italic The remaining Gazettes of Michaelmas term are published on 22 and 29 November and 6 December. Changes to regulations need to be Gazetted at least eight weeks before they are due to take effect.
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