Common Style Guidelines

The AP Stylebook provides an A-Z guide to issues such as capitalization, abbreviation, punctuation, spelling, numerals and many other questions of language usage. What follows are summaries of some of the most common style rules.

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Abbreviations and Acronyms
Academic degrees
Addresses
Ages
Books, Periodicals, Reference Works and Other Types of Compositions
Dates, Months, Years, Days of the Week
Comma
Datelines
Dimensions
Miles
Names
Numerals
Preschool
Punctuation
Race
States and Cities
Times
Titles
Technological Terms