See

?plotmath

For example, try this:

plot(1, 1)
mtext(expression(paste(
        "See Author1 and Author2 (2007), \"Title\", ", 
        italic(Journal), " ", italic(of), " ", italic(Something), 
        ", pp. 1-50.")))

Jean

lukevancleve wrote on 04/03/2012 01:10:06 PM:

> Hi, 
> 
> I need to italicize the journal in a citation but have thus far failed. 
How
> can I make 'Journal of Something' below italic but leave the rest plain? 

> 
> mtext( "See Author1 and Author2 (2007) , \"Title\",  Journal of 
Something ,
> pp. 1-50.", side = 3, outer = T,  line=-0.75, cex = 0.7, at= 0.04, adj = 
0,
> font = 1, family = "Times") 
> 
> Thanks

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