In defense of the use of italic for latin binomial plant names

The author surveyed the instructions for authors in 110 botanical journals to assess how widely italic is used to represent the Latin binomial names of plants. Except for one journal that eliminated italic from the reference list, all of these journals published articles that used italic in the text...

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Main Author: Teixeira da Silva Jaime A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2016-07-01
Series:Polish Botanical Journal
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Online Access:http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/pbj.2016.61.issue-1/pbj-2016-0014/pbj-2016-0014.xml?format=INT