The vertical alignment of the title text is incorrect in the following case:

templates/issue/issue.tpl

- browser is WebKit-based (Chrome or Safari)
- the title contains both a <sup> tag and an <i> or <em> tag that render on the same line of text (the problem is not apparent when the tags are on separate lines)
- no abstract is available (title is not rendered as a link)

This comes from the interaction of <tr valign="top"> and the <i> and <em> tag.
When an abstract is present, the <a> link is rendered, and the text is rendered correctly.

The most straightforward solution appears to be the addition of a <div> tag directly under the <td> element, as follows (line 83 of issue.tpl):

<td class="tocTitle"><div>{if !$hasAccess || $hasAbstract}<a href="{url page="article" op="view" path=$articlePath}">{$article->getLocalizedTitle()|strip_unsafe_html}</a>{else}{$article->getLocalizedTitle()|strip_unsafe_html}{/if}</div></td>


I believe this is the complete list of affected files:

templates/issue/issue.tpl:
(as above)


templates/author/submission/management.tpl:

<tr valign="top">
  <td width="20%" class="label">{translate key="article.title"}</td>
  <td width="80%" colspan="2" class="data">{$submission->getLocalizedTitle()|strip_unsafe_html}</td>
</tr>


templates/gateway/lockss.tpl:

<tr valign="top">
  <td class="label">Title</td>
  <td class="value">{$journal->getLocalizedTitle()|escape}</td>
</tr>


templates/manager/reviewForms/reviewForms.tpl:

<tr valign="top" id="reviewform-{$reviewForm->getId()}" class="data">
  <td class="drag">{$reviewForm->getLocalizedTitle()|escape}</td>
  ...
</tr>


templates/manager/sections/sections.tpl:

<tr valign="top" id="section-{$section->getId()}" class="data">
  <td class="drag">{$section->getLocalizedTitle()|escape}</td>
  ...
</tr>


templates/reviewer/submission.tpl:

<tr valign="top">
  <td width="20%" class="label">{translate key="article.title"}</td>
  <td width="80%" class="value">{$submission->getLocalizedTitle()|strip_unsafe_html}</td>
</tr>


templates/rt/metadata.tpl:

<tr valign="top">
  <td>1.</td>
  <td>{translate key="rt.metadata.dublinCore.title"}</td>
  <td>{translate key="rt.metadata.pkp.title"}</td>
  <td>{$article->getLocalizedTitle()|strip_unsafe_html}</td>
</tr>


templates/rt/metadata.tpl:

<tr valign="top">
  <td>11.</td>
  <td>{translate key="rt.metadata.dublinCore.source"}</td>
  <td>{translate key="rt.metadata.pkp.source"}</td>
  <td>{$currentJournal->getLocalizedTitle()|escape}{if $issue}; {$issue->getIssueIdentification()|strip_unsafe_html|nl2br}{/if}</td>
</tr>


templates/search/searchResults.tpl:

<tr valign="top">
  ...
  <td width="30%">{$article->getLocalizedTitle()|strip_unsafe_html}</td>
  ...
</tr>


templates/search/titleIndex.tpl:

<tr valign="top">
  ...
  <td width="35%">{$article->getLocalizedTitle()|strip_unsafe_html}</td>
  ...
</tr>


templates/sectionEditor/selectReviewForm.tpl:

<tr valign="top">
  <td>{$reviewForm->getLocalizedTitle()|escape}</td>
</tr>