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marks. A different method is observed for footnotes, not only by bibliographers, but by modern historians: the name of the author, the title of the book, and the date and description are always set in roman lower-case, without the use of small capitals, italic, or quotation-marks.
- 1 Sardini, Storia Critiea de Nic. Jenson, Lucca, 1796-98 (3 parts), 8vo, p. 19.
- 2 Madden, Lettres d'un Bibliographe, Paris, 1886, 8vo, sixieme serie, p. 116.
- 3 Savage, Hints on Decorative Printing, London, 1882, 4to, chap. ii.
In the texts of magazines and journals, and in all ordinary book-work, the titles of cited books are frequently and needlessly put in roman lower-case between quotation-marks, as in
- "Introduction to the Classics," vol. ii, p. 555.
- "Gentleman's Magazine," 1793, p. 91.
The full names of magazines and newspapers were formerly always set in italic, but they often appear now in roman lower-case quoted.[1] A recent practice is to select italic for the name (but not always the place) of the paper, as London Times or New
- ↑ Some editors still adhere to the old usage, putting the name of the book or magazine in italic, and reserving quotation-marks for the heading of any article referred to in the publication. This is a nice distinction, but the specification of the article could be made equally clear by using roman lower-case for the name or title, and beginning each important word with a capital letter, as has been the custom for the specification of book titles.