Sir, Thank you for explaining. As i l read this thread for one more time i learn -
1. "Any word which is actually not of English origin is written in italics." 2. "There is no rule which says that you have to underline it." 3. "There is no rule NOW which says that you must write the latin names in italics either, but we do so, just to follow the English writing tradition and also the format of the journal you will want to publish." 4. "Such rule were there earlier but I think from St. Louis code onwards this rule was lifted off." 5. "In common practice, which we follow to distinguish the technical names appearing in the text, we give a break in underline for each taxon. " And at the beginning - "Just wanted to give one small technical suggestion." So, we are talking about many things at a time, "technical suggestion". "very basic fundamentals", "format of the journal", "common practice" and one, the most important word "rule". So, i learn that any format, as typed below, to distinguish it from the main document, will do for scientific names, in written document or in typed ones or in cyber world - - *Amaranthus tricolor* L. - *Amaranthus tricolor* L. - *Amaranthus tricolor* L. - *Amaranthus tricolor* L. - *Amaranthus tricolor* L. - *Amaranthus tricolor* L. Please tell me about use of "upper case" and "lower case". Regards, surajit On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Nidhan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > Surajit Ji, > > In common practice, which we follow to distinguish the > technical names appearing in the text, we give a break in underline for > each taxon. Genus, species, subspecies, variety name etc. all are to be > underlined differently, and as Pankaj Ji have said about beginning of this > practice, this is simply to highlight the usage of other language words, in > a running language. When writing with hand, usually no other easy option is > available..so this became a common practice...I hope I have not confused > the things.. > -- > Regards, > > Dr. Nidhan Singh > Assistant Professor > Department of Botany > I.B. (PG) College > Panipat-132103 Haryana > Ph.: 09416371227 > > --
