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Text formatting in citations should follow, consistently within an article, an established citation style or system. Options include either of Wikipedia's own template-based Citation Style 1 and Citation Style 2, and any other well-recognized citation system. Parameters in the citation templates should be accurate.
Paintings, sculptures and other works of visual art with a title rather than a name (for more detail, see WP:Manual of Style/Visual arts § Article titles) Periodicals (newspapers, journals, magazines) Plays (including published screenplays and teleplays) Long or epic poems: Paradise Lost by John Milton.
Use of italics should conform to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting § Italic type. Do not use articles ( a , an , or the ) as the first word ( Economy of the Second Empire , not The economy of the Second Empire ), unless it is an inseparable part of a name ( The Hague ) or title of a work ( A Clockwork Orange , The Simpsons ).
The given name of a piece functions as a single unit, and cannot be separated or rewritten. That is why it's italicized (or placed in quotes). I really feel that Wikipedia should embrace the standard in the classical music world instead of taking the lazy "italicize everything" approach used by most newspapers.
Here, under MOS:ITALICTITLE, laws are not in the list of works that should have their titles italicized. This was clarified at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Titles of works/Archive 3#Italics for legislation. However, at MOS:CANLAW, it's stated, "in Canada, per the McGill Guide, titles of acts are italicized".
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There are apt to be some judgement-call cases like enchilada and étouffée where the term originates in a foreign language but has currency in some particular English dialects; in those cases, consensus should be established at the article on the dish whether to consider it as English or as an italicized foreignism, and the usage of italics or ...
For example, instead of adding a new section about capital letters, and mentioning scientific names both there and in the section about italics, we should have a section about scientific names where we say that they should be in italics, with the generic name capitalized. Peter Chastain 20:40, 18 May 2010 (UTC)