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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.
Additionally, the AP Stylebook also provides English grammar recommendations through social media, including Twitter, [52] Facebook, [53] Pinterest, [54] and Instagram. [55] From 1977 to 2005, more than two million copies of the AP Stylebook have been sold worldwide, with that number climbing to 2.5 million by 2011.
The Associated Press Stylebook states that in contexts other than mailing addresses, the traditional state abbreviations should be used. [16] However, the Chicago Manual of Style now recommends use of the uppercase two-letter abbreviations, with the traditional forms as an option. [17]
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.
A number of style guides exist to provide writing standards for various professions. For example, the 2009 edition of the Associated Press Stylebook calls for a single space following the terminal punctuation of a sentence. [46] The Associated Press represents over 300 locations worldwide. [47]
Organizations and style guides that use lowercase internet include Apple, [24] Microsoft, [25] Google, [26] Wired News (since 2004), [27] the United States Government Publishing Office, [28] the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology, [29] the Associated Press (since 2016), [30] The New York Times (since 2016), [31] The ...
The AP Stylebook recommends using figures for sequences in its section on "Numbers": "Also use figures in all tabular matter, and in statistical and sequential forms", from which I infer that for sequences, such as 'phase 1', figures should be used for clarity and consistency.
Actually, what I remember is that the AP style guide mandates spelling numbers 10 & below; the ordinal form follows logically. -- llywrch 20:16, 23 May 2007 (UTC) Yes, I believe you are right; the AP style guide disallows the superscript use. I found a website that seems to have AP style guide rules. Blue Ag09 22:01, 23 May 2007 (UTC)