These items are headings listed in your AP stylebook. Familiarize yourself with each of them and the bold-face links to related terms.
AP – A-C:
abbreviations and acronyms
academic degrees
academic departments
academic titles
accused
addresses
adopt
ages
allege
another
a.m., p.m.
animals
another
anti
apostrophe
arrest
boy
burglary, larceny, robbery, theft
capitalization
co-
collective nouns
collide
colon
comma
compose, comprise, constitute
composition titles
courtesy titles
AP – D-H:
damage, damages
dimensions
datelines
directions and regions
distances
dollars
essential, non-essential clauses and phrases
exclamation marks
fewer, less
fractions
full-
full-time, full time
geographic names
girl
his, her
homicide, murder, manslaughter
hyphen
AP – I-M:
include
injuries
innocent
job descriptions
lady
legislative titles
media
military titles
millions, billions
Miss
Months
Mr., Mrs., Ms.
AP – N-S:
nationalities and races
numerals
party affiliations
percent
percentages
periods
plurals
possessives
pupil, student
quotations in news
quotation marks
race
re-
religious references
religious titles
second reference
semicolons
state names
subjunctive mood
AP – T-Z:
temperatures
that (conjunction)
that, which, who, whom
time element
time of day
times
titles
trusty, trustee
weapons
weather terms
weights
well
women
years
youth
ZIP code
Other Important Sections:
Sports Guidelines
Business Guidelines
Guide to Punctuation
Briefing on Media Law
Proofreader Marks
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