The Associated Press Stylebook 2018: Entries to Know

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In addition to the STYLEBOOK Company/companies Federal

entries below, you should be Company names Female
knowledgeable of the following Complement/compliment Fewer, less
chapters in the AP Stylebook: Composition titles Flier, flyer
• Punctuation Congress Florida
• Editing Marks Contractions Food
Corporation Foot
A County Foot-and-mouth disease
Abbreviations and acronyms Courtesy titles Fractions
Academic degrees Full-
Academic departments D Fundraising
Academic titles Dangling modifiers
Accept/except Datelines G
Addresses Dates Geographic names
Adult Days of the week Girl
Adverse/averse Day to day/day-to-day Global warming
Adviser Decades Google
Affect/effect Decimal units Governmental bodies
African-American Department (esp. Department of Governor
Ages Agriculture) Grade, grader
All right Dimensions Graduate
Alumnus/alumni/alumna/alumnae Directions and regions
a.m./p.m. Disk, disc
Distances H
Among/between Half-
Animals Doctor
Dollars Hands-off/hands off
Annual Hand to hand, etc.
Anti- Domain names
Door to door, door-to-door Happy holidays, merry Christmas
Apostrophe (See Punctuation section.) Hashtag
App -down
Highway designations
Arabic numerals Hispanic
Army E Historical periods and events
Associated Press Earth Holidays and holy days
Association E-book Homicide, murder, manslaughter
E. coli Husband, wife
B Ecology Hurricane
Bachelor of Arts/Science Either/or, neither/nor
Because/since Elderly
Email I
Blog Illegal
Boy, girl Ensure, insure, assure
Essential clauses/nonessential clauses -in
Brand names Essential phrases/nonessential phrases In-
Byte Ethanol Inch
Every day, everyday Incorporated
C Eye to eye, eye-to-eye Initials
Capitalization Instagram
Capitol Internet
Citizen/resident/subject/national/native F
Facebook Intra-
City council IP address
Collective nouns Family names
Farther/further iPad
Committee
iPhone P Tomorrow
iPod Part time/part-time T-shirt
It’s/its People/persons TV
Percent Tweet
J Ph.D., Ph.D.s Twitter
Jail Planets
Jargon Plants U
JPEG, JPG Plurals United States
Judge p.m./a.m. URL
Junior, senior Political parties and philosophies
Possessives V
President
K Principal/principle
Verbs
Punctuation (See Punctuation section.)
Verses
Versus
Vice
L Q Vice president
Lay, lie Quotation marks (See Punctuation Voicemail
Legislative bodies section.)
Legislative titles Quotations in the news
Legislature W
Like, as Web
R Website
-ly Reference works
Weights
Religious titles
Who’s, whose
M Roman numerals
Who, whom
Mad cow disease
Wide-
Man, mankind S -wide
Manager Second reference Woman, women
Master of Arts/Science Sentences
Medfly Shall, will
Media XYZ
Should, would
Middle initials Years
Side by side, side-by-side
Miles per gallon Yesterday
Smartphone
Miles per hour Youth
Snapchat
Military titles YouTube
South
Millions, billions, trillions ZIP code
Speeds
Months Spelling
More than, over State
State names
N
Names T
National FFA Organization Teen, teenager, teenage
Nationalities and races Telephone numbers
No. Television program titles
Numerals Temperatures
That (conjunction)
O That, which (pronouns)
Off of Time element
Off-, -off Time of day
OK, OK’d, OK’ing, OKs Times
Oral, verbal, written Time sequences
Organizations/institutions Titles
Today, tonight