ࡱ> <>; ]!bjbj 48]$<m0=====?v=='"===E bS:=0m0Xtm : ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) STYLE GUIDELINES By Leslie Young All information taken from the Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law State Name Guidelines: STANDING ALONE: Spell out the names of the 50 states when they stand alone in the text. ABBREVIATIONS REQUIRED: There are specific times when one should use abbreviations: in conjunction with the name of a city, town, village, or military base in most datelines. in conjunction with the name of a city, county, town, or military base in text. in short-form listing of party affiliation: D-Ala, R-Mont. EIGHT STATES NOT ABBREVIATED: Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Ohio, Texas, and Utah. Here is a helpful hint to remember: spell out the two states that are not part of the continental United States, and spell out the other states that have five or fewer letters. PUNCTIONATION: Place one comma between the city and the state name and another comma after the state name unless ending a sentence or indicating a dateline. MISCELLANEOUS: Use New York state when necessary to distinguish the state from New York City. Use state of Washington or Washington state when necessary to distinguish the state from the District of Columbia. STATE ABBREVIATIONS: Ala. La. N.Y. W.Va. Ariz. Md. N.C. Wis. Ark. Mass. N.D. Wyo. Calif. Mich. Okla. Colo. Minn. Ore. Conn. Miss. Pa. Del. Mo. R.I. Fla. Mont. S.C. Ga. Neb. S.D. Ill. Nev. Tenn. Ind. N.H. Vt. Kan. N.J. Va. Ky. N.M. Wash. Abbreviation Guidelines: BEFORE A NAME: Abbreviate the following titles when used before a full name outside direct quotations: Dr., Gov., Lt. Gov., Mr., Mrs., Rep., the Rev., Sen., and certain military designations. AFTER A NAME: Abbreviate junior (Jr.) or senior (Sr.) after an individuals name. Abbreviate company (Co.), corporation (Corp.), incorporated (Inc.), and limited (Ltd.) when used after the name of a corporate entity. WITH DATES OR NUMERALS: Use abbreviations for A.D., B.C., a.m., p.m., No., and certain months when used with the day of the month. IN NUMBERED ADDRESSES: Abbreviate avenue (Ave.), boulevard (Blvd.), and street (St.) in numbered addresses: He lives on Pennsylvania Avenue. He lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. ACCEPTABLE BUT NOT REQUIRED: Some organizations and government agencies are widely recognized by their initials: CIA, FBI, GOP. If the organization is not widely known, do not use the abbreviation for the first mention of the organization. Instead, write out the entire name of the organization and put the abbreviation in parentheses. Then, you can use the abbreviation for the duration of the article. Capitalization Guidelines: PROPER NOUNS: Capitalize nouns that constitute the unique identification for a specific person, place, or thing. PROPER NAMES: Capitalize common nouns such as party, river, street, and west when they are an integral part of the full name for a person, place, or thing: Democratic Party, Mississippi River, Fleet Street, West Virginia. DERIVATIVES: Capitalize words that are derived from a proper noun and still depend on that noun for their meaning: American, Christian, English, French, Marxism, and Shakespearean. COMPOSITIONS: Capitalize the principal words in the names of books, movies, plays, poems, operas, songs, radio and television programs, works of art, etc. TITLES: Capitalize formal titles when they are used immediately before a name. Do not capitalize formal titles when they are used alone or in constructions that set them off from a name by commas. Dateline Guidelines: Datelines on stories should contain a city name, entirely in capital letters, followed by the name of the state, country, or territory where the city is located. DOMESTIC DATELINES: Certain cities do not require that states follow them because of the frequency of the citys appearance in the news, the population of its metropolitan region, population of the city, the uniqueness of its name, and experience that has shown the name to be almost synonymous with the state or nation where it is located. NO STATE WITH THE FOLLOWING CITIES: Atlanta Milwaukee Baltimore Minneapolis Boston New Orleans Chicago New York Cincinnati Oklahoma City Cleveland Philadelphia Dallas Phoenix Denver Pittsburgh Detroit St. Louis Honolulu Salt Lake City Houston San Antonio Indianapolis San Diego Las Vegas San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Miami Washington FOREIGN CITIES: These foreign locations stand alone in datelines: Beijing Mexico City Berlin Monaco Djibouti Montreal Geneva Moscow Gibraltar Ottowa Guatemala City Paris Havana Quebec Hong Kong Rome Jerusalem San Marino Kuwait Singapore London Tokyo Luxembourg Toronto Macau Vatican City In addition, use UNITED NATIONS alone, without an N.Y. designation, in stories from U.N. headquarters. Numbers Guidelines: LARGE NUMBERS: When large numbers must be spelled out, use a hyphen to connect a word ending in y to another word; do not use commas between other separate words that are part of one number: twenty; thirty; thirty-one; one hundred forty-three; one million two hundred seventy-six thousand five hundred eighty-seven. SENTENCE STARTERS: Spell out a number at the beginning of a sentence: Twenty- eight students are enrolled in this class. CASUAL USES: Spell out casual expressions: Ive seen that movie a thousand times. PROPER NAMES: Use words or numerals according to an organizations practice: 20th Century Fox, Twentieth Century Fund, Big Ten. FIGURES VS. WORDS: Spell out first through ninth when they indicate sequence in time or location: first base, the First Amendment, first in line. Starting with 10th, use figures. Use 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. when the sequence has been assigned in forming names. 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