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The Associated Press Stylebook (generally called the AP Stylebook), alternatively titled The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, is a style and usage guide for American English grammar created by American journalists working for or connected with the Associated Press journalism cooperative based in New York City.
The purpose, rather than to standardize state abbreviations per se, was to make room in a line of no more than 23 characters for the city, the state, and the ZIP code. [4] Since 1963, only one state abbreviation has changed.
This list of style guide abbreviations provides the meanings of the abbreviations that are commonly used as short ways to refer to major style guides. They are used especially by editors communicating with other editors in manuscript queries, proof queries, marginalia , emails, message boards , and so on.
They should not be used in infoboxes. An exception is Washington, D.C., which has been conventionally called so, for reasons of clarity, since long before postal codes were invented. "Washington, D.C.", or "Washington, DC", may be used in tables whether or not other state postal codes appear. Never use "Washington D.C." (without a comma).
Primarily from the United States Government Printing Office Style Manual. [1] State names usually signify only parts of each listed state, unless otherwise indicated. Based on the BLM manual's 1973 publication date, and the reference to Clarke's Spheroid of 1866 in section 2-82, coordinates appear to be in the NAD27 datum.
Washington WV: West Virginia WI: Wisconsin WY: Wyoming AS: American Samoa CM: Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands CZ: Panama Canal Zone FM: Federated States of Micronesia GU: Guam MH: Marshall Islands MP: Northern Mariana Islands PI: Philippines PR: Puerto Rico PW: Palau TT: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands VI: U.S. Virgin Islands
The Gregg Reference Manual: A Manual of Style, Grammar, Usage, and Formatting is a guide to English grammar and style, written by William A. Sabin [1] and published by McGraw-Hill. The book is named after John Robert Gregg .
Either is bad logic. The logic of most style guides is to further the use of good, idiomatic English that is appropriate to the subject and to avoid artificialilty. I have long made a point in my own writing when I catch myself using either "i.e." or "e.g." to change it to an equally precise but less bookish and artificial equivalent.