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If I am mentioning DmC: Devil May Cry, I would italicize the whole title, but if I am referring to Call of Duty as CoD or The Last of Us as TLoU, would those abbreviations be italicized?
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If I am mentioning DmC: Devil May Cry, I would italicize the whole title, but if I am referring to Call of Duty as CoD or The Last of Us as TLoU, would those abbreviations be italicized?
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Why would you italicize one title and not another? Your examples are inconsistent. What makes DMC (or, strangely, DmC in your example—but that's another issue) any different than COD (or COD)?
– Jason Bassford
Dec 2 at 21:07
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There's no general rule for italicising titles: it's simply a matter of style. If you're required to follow a particular style manual, check what it says. As Jason says, make sure you're consistent in your approach. NB if you pronounce each letter of a word (e.g. FBI or CIA) it's an initialism, vs an acronym where you pronounce the whole word, e.g. NATO, GIF, scuba. It's usual for all letters in an initialism to be all-caps. Wikipedia has a useful page on this. :-)
– Chappo
Dec 2 at 23:08
@JasonBassford DmC: Devil May Cry is how the title is styled. It is Capcom's decision, not mine. My examples were consistent in that I'm referring to informal abbreviations that the creators did not invent.
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If I am mentioning DmC: Devil May Cry, I would italicize the whole title, but if I am referring to Call of Duty as CoD or The Last of Us as TLoU, would those abbreviations be italicized?
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If I am mentioning DmC: Devil May Cry, I would italicize the whole title, but if I am referring to Call of Duty as CoD or The Last of Us as TLoU, would those abbreviations be italicized?
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Why would you italicize one title and not another? Your examples are inconsistent. What makes DMC (or, strangely, DmC in your example—but that's another issue) any different than COD (or COD)?
– Jason Bassford
Dec 2 at 21:07
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There's no general rule for italicising titles: it's simply a matter of style. If you're required to follow a particular style manual, check what it says. As Jason says, make sure you're consistent in your approach. NB if you pronounce each letter of a word (e.g. FBI or CIA) it's an initialism, vs an acronym where you pronounce the whole word, e.g. NATO, GIF, scuba. It's usual for all letters in an initialism to be all-caps. Wikipedia has a useful page on this. :-)
– Chappo
Dec 2 at 23:08
@JasonBassford DmC: Devil May Cry is how the title is styled. It is Capcom's decision, not mine. My examples were consistent in that I'm referring to informal abbreviations that the creators did not invent.
– Gabe Eddy T
Dec 3 at 22:13
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Why would you italicize one title and not another? Your examples are inconsistent. What makes DMC (or, strangely, DmC in your example—but that's another issue) any different than COD (or COD)?
– Jason Bassford
Dec 2 at 21:07
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There's no general rule for italicising titles: it's simply a matter of style. If you're required to follow a particular style manual, check what it says. As Jason says, make sure you're consistent in your approach. NB if you pronounce each letter of a word (e.g. FBI or CIA) it's an initialism, vs an acronym where you pronounce the whole word, e.g. NATO, GIF, scuba. It's usual for all letters in an initialism to be all-caps. Wikipedia has a useful page on this. :-)
– Chappo
Dec 2 at 23:08
@JasonBassford DmC: Devil May Cry is how the title is styled. It is Capcom's decision, not mine. My examples were consistent in that I'm referring to informal abbreviations that the creators did not invent.
– Gabe Eddy T
Dec 3 at 22:13
Why would you italicize one title and not another? Your examples are inconsistent. What makes DMC (or, strangely, DmC in your example—but that's another issue) any different than COD (or COD)?
– Jason Bassford
Dec 2 at 21:07
Why would you italicize one title and not another? Your examples are inconsistent. What makes DMC (or, strangely, DmC in your example—but that's another issue) any different than COD (or COD)?
– Jason Bassford
Dec 2 at 21:07
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There's no general rule for italicising titles: it's simply a matter of style. If you're required to follow a particular style manual, check what it says. As Jason says, make sure you're consistent in your approach. NB if you pronounce each letter of a word (e.g. FBI or CIA) it's an initialism, vs an acronym where you pronounce the whole word, e.g. NATO, GIF, scuba. It's usual for all letters in an initialism to be all-caps. Wikipedia has a useful page on this. :-)
– Chappo
Dec 2 at 23:08
There's no general rule for italicising titles: it's simply a matter of style. If you're required to follow a particular style manual, check what it says. As Jason says, make sure you're consistent in your approach. NB if you pronounce each letter of a word (e.g. FBI or CIA) it's an initialism, vs an acronym where you pronounce the whole word, e.g. NATO, GIF, scuba. It's usual for all letters in an initialism to be all-caps. Wikipedia has a useful page on this. :-)
– Chappo
Dec 2 at 23:08
@JasonBassford DmC: Devil May Cry is how the title is styled. It is Capcom's decision, not mine. My examples were consistent in that I'm referring to informal abbreviations that the creators did not invent.
– Gabe Eddy T
Dec 3 at 22:13
@JasonBassford DmC: Devil May Cry is how the title is styled. It is Capcom's decision, not mine. My examples were consistent in that I'm referring to informal abbreviations that the creators did not invent.
– Gabe Eddy T
Dec 3 at 22:13
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I am not certain, but I do not recollect seeing these italicized in my time skulking around at various video game related internet forums, and I have been doing that since at least 2004. I decided to do a brief check for some four letter abbreviations at forums I visit just to verify that, and if you are wondering why I need four letter abbreviations, it is to bypass the minimal character limit search restriction.
Typically, I only see this sort of abbreviation on websites, and when do, I do not observe these being given special treatment. This is even true of The Battle of Wesnoth. People usually just write out "HttT" which is the popular abbreviated form for Heir to the Throne campaign. If anybody had a vested interest in presenting this type of abbreviation in good form, it would be them, because the community is actively developing the game on that website, and it is probably one of the most popular G.P.L. licensed games. Similarly doing a brief check on google to see how people treat "LttP", which is the popular way of abbreviating A Link to the Past it does not seem like people italicize that either. A brief check on the Caves of Narshe verifies that people do not bother to italicize "LttP" and its variations either. Immaterial and Missing Power is popularly abbreviated to "IaMP" in Touhou communities, and I do no not remember seeing that italicized either (example).
I skimmed through the 2018 April hardcopy of Gameinformer, with Spiderman on the cover, and while I did not see an abbreviation of this exact sort, I did notice that "ESRB" and "PES" (for Pro Evolution Survive) were not italicized. You could argue that these are more formal abbreviations in a more formal context, if you want to argue that Gameinformer is a formal publication, but if people are not going through the bother of italicizing the formal ones, then the informal ones are even less likely to merit the distinction.
However, those sources also do not bother to italicize the game titles when they are spelled out in full either, and since you do, I would recommend doing it for stylistic consistency. When I consult The Video Game Style Guide by David Thomas, Kyle Orland and Scott Steinburg (©2007) they do recommend italicizing both the game titles and the abbreviations on page 32, under the Game Names entry. They use GTA3 as the example.
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I am not certain, but I do not recollect seeing these italicized in my time skulking around at various video game related internet forums, and I have been doing that since at least 2004. I decided to do a brief check for some four letter abbreviations at forums I visit just to verify that, and if you are wondering why I need four letter abbreviations, it is to bypass the minimal character limit search restriction.
Typically, I only see this sort of abbreviation on websites, and when do, I do not observe these being given special treatment. This is even true of The Battle of Wesnoth. People usually just write out "HttT" which is the popular abbreviated form for Heir to the Throne campaign. If anybody had a vested interest in presenting this type of abbreviation in good form, it would be them, because the community is actively developing the game on that website, and it is probably one of the most popular G.P.L. licensed games. Similarly doing a brief check on google to see how people treat "LttP", which is the popular way of abbreviating A Link to the Past it does not seem like people italicize that either. A brief check on the Caves of Narshe verifies that people do not bother to italicize "LttP" and its variations either. Immaterial and Missing Power is popularly abbreviated to "IaMP" in Touhou communities, and I do no not remember seeing that italicized either (example).
I skimmed through the 2018 April hardcopy of Gameinformer, with Spiderman on the cover, and while I did not see an abbreviation of this exact sort, I did notice that "ESRB" and "PES" (for Pro Evolution Survive) were not italicized. You could argue that these are more formal abbreviations in a more formal context, if you want to argue that Gameinformer is a formal publication, but if people are not going through the bother of italicizing the formal ones, then the informal ones are even less likely to merit the distinction.
However, those sources also do not bother to italicize the game titles when they are spelled out in full either, and since you do, I would recommend doing it for stylistic consistency. When I consult The Video Game Style Guide by David Thomas, Kyle Orland and Scott Steinburg (©2007) they do recommend italicizing both the game titles and the abbreviations on page 32, under the Game Names entry. They use GTA3 as the example.
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I am not certain, but I do not recollect seeing these italicized in my time skulking around at various video game related internet forums, and I have been doing that since at least 2004. I decided to do a brief check for some four letter abbreviations at forums I visit just to verify that, and if you are wondering why I need four letter abbreviations, it is to bypass the minimal character limit search restriction.
Typically, I only see this sort of abbreviation on websites, and when do, I do not observe these being given special treatment. This is even true of The Battle of Wesnoth. People usually just write out "HttT" which is the popular abbreviated form for Heir to the Throne campaign. If anybody had a vested interest in presenting this type of abbreviation in good form, it would be them, because the community is actively developing the game on that website, and it is probably one of the most popular G.P.L. licensed games. Similarly doing a brief check on google to see how people treat "LttP", which is the popular way of abbreviating A Link to the Past it does not seem like people italicize that either. A brief check on the Caves of Narshe verifies that people do not bother to italicize "LttP" and its variations either. Immaterial and Missing Power is popularly abbreviated to "IaMP" in Touhou communities, and I do no not remember seeing that italicized either (example).
I skimmed through the 2018 April hardcopy of Gameinformer, with Spiderman on the cover, and while I did not see an abbreviation of this exact sort, I did notice that "ESRB" and "PES" (for Pro Evolution Survive) were not italicized. You could argue that these are more formal abbreviations in a more formal context, if you want to argue that Gameinformer is a formal publication, but if people are not going through the bother of italicizing the formal ones, then the informal ones are even less likely to merit the distinction.
However, those sources also do not bother to italicize the game titles when they are spelled out in full either, and since you do, I would recommend doing it for stylistic consistency. When I consult The Video Game Style Guide by David Thomas, Kyle Orland and Scott Steinburg (©2007) they do recommend italicizing both the game titles and the abbreviations on page 32, under the Game Names entry. They use GTA3 as the example.
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I am not certain, but I do not recollect seeing these italicized in my time skulking around at various video game related internet forums, and I have been doing that since at least 2004. I decided to do a brief check for some four letter abbreviations at forums I visit just to verify that, and if you are wondering why I need four letter abbreviations, it is to bypass the minimal character limit search restriction.
Typically, I only see this sort of abbreviation on websites, and when do, I do not observe these being given special treatment. This is even true of The Battle of Wesnoth. People usually just write out "HttT" which is the popular abbreviated form for Heir to the Throne campaign. If anybody had a vested interest in presenting this type of abbreviation in good form, it would be them, because the community is actively developing the game on that website, and it is probably one of the most popular G.P.L. licensed games. Similarly doing a brief check on google to see how people treat "LttP", which is the popular way of abbreviating A Link to the Past it does not seem like people italicize that either. A brief check on the Caves of Narshe verifies that people do not bother to italicize "LttP" and its variations either. Immaterial and Missing Power is popularly abbreviated to "IaMP" in Touhou communities, and I do no not remember seeing that italicized either (example).
I skimmed through the 2018 April hardcopy of Gameinformer, with Spiderman on the cover, and while I did not see an abbreviation of this exact sort, I did notice that "ESRB" and "PES" (for Pro Evolution Survive) were not italicized. You could argue that these are more formal abbreviations in a more formal context, if you want to argue that Gameinformer is a formal publication, but if people are not going through the bother of italicizing the formal ones, then the informal ones are even less likely to merit the distinction.
However, those sources also do not bother to italicize the game titles when they are spelled out in full either, and since you do, I would recommend doing it for stylistic consistency. When I consult The Video Game Style Guide by David Thomas, Kyle Orland and Scott Steinburg (©2007) they do recommend italicizing both the game titles and the abbreviations on page 32, under the Game Names entry. They use GTA3 as the example.
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I am not certain, but I do not recollect seeing these italicized in my time skulking around at various video game related internet forums, and I have been doing that since at least 2004. I decided to do a brief check for some four letter abbreviations at forums I visit just to verify that, and if you are wondering why I need four letter abbreviations, it is to bypass the minimal character limit search restriction.
Typically, I only see this sort of abbreviation on websites, and when do, I do not observe these being given special treatment. This is even true of The Battle of Wesnoth. People usually just write out "HttT" which is the popular abbreviated form for Heir to the Throne campaign. If anybody had a vested interest in presenting this type of abbreviation in good form, it would be them, because the community is actively developing the game on that website, and it is probably one of the most popular G.P.L. licensed games. Similarly doing a brief check on google to see how people treat "LttP", which is the popular way of abbreviating A Link to the Past it does not seem like people italicize that either. A brief check on the Caves of Narshe verifies that people do not bother to italicize "LttP" and its variations either. Immaterial and Missing Power is popularly abbreviated to "IaMP" in Touhou communities, and I do no not remember seeing that italicized either (example).
I skimmed through the 2018 April hardcopy of Gameinformer, with Spiderman on the cover, and while I did not see an abbreviation of this exact sort, I did notice that "ESRB" and "PES" (for Pro Evolution Survive) were not italicized. You could argue that these are more formal abbreviations in a more formal context, if you want to argue that Gameinformer is a formal publication, but if people are not going through the bother of italicizing the formal ones, then the informal ones are even less likely to merit the distinction.
However, those sources also do not bother to italicize the game titles when they are spelled out in full either, and since you do, I would recommend doing it for stylistic consistency. When I consult The Video Game Style Guide by David Thomas, Kyle Orland and Scott Steinburg (©2007) they do recommend italicizing both the game titles and the abbreviations on page 32, under the Game Names entry. They use GTA3 as the example.
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Why would you italicize one title and not another? Your examples are inconsistent. What makes DMC (or, strangely, DmC in your example—but that's another issue) any different than COD (or COD)?
– Jason Bassford
Dec 2 at 21:07
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There's no general rule for italicising titles: it's simply a matter of style. If you're required to follow a particular style manual, check what it says. As Jason says, make sure you're consistent in your approach. NB if you pronounce each letter of a word (e.g. FBI or CIA) it's an initialism, vs an acronym where you pronounce the whole word, e.g. NATO, GIF, scuba. It's usual for all letters in an initialism to be all-caps. Wikipedia has a useful page on this. :-)
– Chappo
Dec 2 at 23:08
@JasonBassford DmC: Devil May Cry is how the title is styled. It is Capcom's decision, not mine. My examples were consistent in that I'm referring to informal abbreviations that the creators did not invent.
– Gabe Eddy T
Dec 3 at 22:13