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Italics

APA has specific guidelines for the use of italics. You can find them in APA 7, Section 6.22. As a general rule, use italics sparingly.

According to the manual, italics are appropriate for:

titles of books, journals and periodicals, webpages, films, and videos

The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association is…
In the show Friends, Rachel and Ross…
The American Journal of Psychology includes…

The term zone of proximal development means.
Adolescents labeled high risk should.

Scores ranged from 0 (never) to 5 (continuously)

Equus caballus

Italics are inappropriate for:

• mere emphasis
• foreign phrases common in English (et al., a posteriori, ex post facto)
• Greek letters (α)
• nonstatistical subscripts to statistical symbols (Fcrit)
• chemical terms (OH, LSD)
• words, phrases, or letters presented as linguistic examples (note that APA 6 recommended italicizing these linguistic examples but APA 7 recommends putting the terms in quotation marks instead)