- When abbreviating The Council of Churches of the Ozarks it should be written CCO.
- Use gender-neutral language such as “chair” or “chairperson” (rather than “chairman”), “police officers” (rather than “policemen”), and so forth.
- Use “people with disabilities” rather than “handicapped people.”
- Capitalize color in a racial, ethnic or cultural sense. The lowercase is a color, not a person. Learn more about this AP Style rule here: https://apnews.com/afs:Content:9105661462.
- Capitalize Indigenous in reference to original inhabitants of a place.
- When identifying a quoted source or people in captions, use the format “position, organization”(CEO, Council of Churches).
- Use USPS format to list an address that includes the zip code.
- Write out the words for numbers one through nine, and use numerals for most other numbers.
- If you have two related numbers in the same sentence, you should write them both as numerals if you write one as a numeral. (“The snail advanced 1 inch on the first day and 12 inches on the second day.”)
- When you are writing two numbers right next to each other, you should use words for one of them and a numeral for the other. (“We tested 52 twelve-inch snails,”)
- When you put a number at the beginning of a sentence, write out the words. If the number would be ridiculously long if you wrote out the words, you should rephrase the sentence so the number doesn’t come at the beginning.
- If you’re writing dialogue, for example quoting someone in a magazine article or writing a conversation in fiction, spell out all the numbers.
Style Rules
Updated on March 5, 2021
