Click the "I" for italics in the toolbar of your program. For a text editor, you may need to click "Fonts" and then highlight "Italics." Most word processing programs allow you to switch between italics and straight lettering by clicking the type format icons in the toolbar of your program.
Italicize species names and titles of movies, books, musicals, magazines and newspapers.
Use italics to set apart words or phrases. In the following examples, the asterisks indicate italics. Italicize words to emphasize -- "I am *so* tired." Use italics to set apart a letter when you refer to the letter by name -- "The letter *G*." Use italics to indicate terms or foreign words -- "The Spanish word *bueno* means "good."
Keep punctuation outside of italicized words or phrases. Do not include punctuation in italics. If you pluralize italicized words that name themselves -- such as symbols, letters and numbers -- add an apostrophe and an "s." Do not include the apostrophe and the "s" in the italics.