Italicize journal titles in back office interfaces

Problem statement

This is one of those small things that end up being distracting for users because it is unexpected. Not a make-or-break issue, but one that, if we fix, would ease someone's overall experience of Janeway.

Journal titles are usually italicized when referred to in running text. This is a widely adopted and widely documented editorial convention:

• “The title of a free-standing publication is set in italic type.... This category [includes] periodicals.” New Oxford Style Manual, 2nd ed. (Oxford University Press 2012), 8.22.
• “When mentioned in text, notes, or bibliography, the titles and subtitles of books and periodicals are italicized and capitalized headline-style.” Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed., 8.168.
• “Use of Italics,” APA Style, https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/italics-quotations/italics.

Proposed solution

When importing the name of a journal into back-office copy in Janeway, we can mark up titles with the <i> element. I propose using <i> rather than <em> because we are not trying to convey emphasis semantically, but adhere to a presentational convention. For more see <i> vs <em> at MDN Web Docs.

Here is an example from the author-facing submission steps:

https://github.com/BirkbeckCTP/janeway/blob/959d7ddf5eed21aa02fc80bc5c33e5815cf499fe/src/templates/admin/submission/submit_info.html#L99

Alternatives

We could use CSS to create the italics for journal titles instead of the <i> element. This would make it easier to maintain and modify in the future, but would require consistently wrapping journal titles in a span with a class.

Start with src/templates/admin/submission/submit_info.html at the linked journal-title example, then search the back-office templates for other places where journal names are imported into copy. Confirm the affected interfaces and apply the proposed markup consistently; done means journal titles render in italics throughout the identified back-office views.