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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.

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

The full names of magazines and newspapers were formerly always set in italic, but they often appear now in roman lower-case quoted. A recent practice is to select italic for the name (but not always the place) of the paper, as London Times or New