Horsepower, the common unit of power; i.e., the rate at which work is done. Many newspapers, magazines and public relations offices across the United States use AP style. That’s all the list of AP style state abbreviations and the respective state postal abbreviations for the United States. Feel free to copy edit it if necessary.

As such, when deciding whether to use an abbreviation, think about: For instance, if you were writing for a US audience of broadcasting professionals, you could use the initialism “FCC” with confidence because the readers would know this is the Federal Communications Commission. Now corrected.

Let the context of your particular circumstance determine whether you want to use the abbreviation for organizations and agencies like the GOP, CIA, FBI, etc.

Thoughts?

Can others comment please? The U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual. An edit in those cases seems unremarkable and uncontroversial to me. ABBREVIATIONS United States • as a noun, United States: The prime minister left for the United States yesterday. For instance: Today, POTUS met with the CO of NATO forces and the CMO of WHO at a UN summit to discuss NAFTA. adroll_adv_id = "KRNULS3DQRHXVACWQTZIHM"; Abbreviations are often desired in tabulations and certain types of technical writings.

I felt like an edit Nazi. In terms of punctuation, the AP’s general advice is to use full stops between letters in two-letter initialisms, such as “U.S.,” “U.K.,” “U.N.,” “B.C.,” and “A.D.” But this is only necessary for longer abbreviations when the letters in an initialism would spell an unrelated word otherwise. By now, readers are as familiar with USPS abbreviations as AP’s. AP Style holds that acronyms are formed from the first letters (or letters) of a series of words. Here’s the full AP Stylebook entry on the District of Columbia: “In datelines Washington doesn’t take D.C. Generally use District of Columbia within a story only for official designations, such as local government names, or to avoid confusion with other localities of that name. Let us save you time and money by creating the content you need! If in your mind the Arkansas abbreviation will always be AR and Missouri abbreviation MO, then so be it! Below are the 50 AP Style state abbreviations (postal code abbreviations are in parenthesis). BP (British Petroleum) But I must note that one of my pet peeves is using “every day” as one word when it should be two. The basic AP Style rules for geographic names are below.

You may not be aware of AP style state abbreviations if you are not a journalist or a PR professional. Is the superscript required or not?

Some organizations and government agencies are widely recognized by their initials and can be referred to using their abbreviations. The state abbreviations always consist of two capital letters without any space or period in it. even though people get the “A” states confused (hint: Southern “A” states are first two letters — Alabama AL, Arkansas AR — while Western “A” states’ second letter is the unusual syllable — Alaska AK, Arizona AZ). Do not use the postal abbreviations for state names. You may not be aware of AP style state abbreviations if you are not a journalist or a PR professional. The AP style is based on the guidelines from the “Associated Press Stylebook” mainly aimed for journalists and news media to maintain uniformity and ease of reading. Your email address will not be published. Our company uses AP style and I receive info from an educator on a weekly basis. I apologize if this is already mentioned in the article. Correct: In 900 B.C. I am taking a trip to Athens, Mississippi, to see the landscape.

Generally AP Style omits periods in acronyms, unless doing so would spell an unrelated word. The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law official style guide of the Associated Press, a not-for-profit news agency that’s been around since 1846. (No comma after state abbreviation because it ends the sentence). A Quick Guide to Abbreviations in AP Style. Thanks for reading!

You should use only an initial capital letter then lowercase for acronyms of more than six letters, unless listed otherwise in our AP Style list or Webster’s New World College Dictionary. Because nothing can ever truly be simple, abbreviated state names still are used in the following: AP style isn’t keen on using state abbreviations in titles, so spell them out.

A good way to remember these eight is to always spell out the names of the two states outside the contiguous United States (Hawaii and Alaska) and the states inside the contiguous United States with five letters or less. But don’t cook up any trouble! In conjunction with the name of a city, town, village, or military base in most. Unlike many style guides, AP style says not to introduce abbreviations in brackets alongside the full terminology. See the example given above by Mr.Z-man or search wikipedia for 'more horsepower'. —MJCdetroit 18:22, 22 May 2007 (UTC), What happens when you use a decimal or fraction, eg 0.6 kilometers. ; at 10:30 p.m., in theater No. ), My hometown is Springfield, IL. BlueAg09 (Talk) 06:29, 22 May 2007 (UTC), Everyone seems to be happy with this, so I've added it. But what does it say about acronyms and initialisms? This is bad AP style usage because when writing out the numbers of the scores there must be a hyphen between the two numbers, not “to”, and the numbers must be in numerals. As it is necessary, use New York state to differentiate the state of New York from New York City. The other states, however, retain their periods when appearing in headlines (Mich., Wyo., Pa., etc.). This new FAI scheme will improve access to youth sport… ✓. Similarly saying 'more pounds' or 'more kilograms' really means 'more weight'. Make sure you’re sticking to these AP guidelines so your readers have an easy time recreating your dishes in their kitchens. That works fine for something like "5 feet (1.5 m)", but is this also how multi-dimensional conversions are supposed be formatted? Mixing English/SI units in a single article, a single sentence even, Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers), Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)/Archive_71&oldid=437462898, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 2 July 2011, at 22:32. The postal code abbreviation is “CA,” but AP uses that only with full addresses. The AP warns against alphabet soup.

You should abbreviate titles when they are used before a full name. The AP Stylebook has a lot of helpful advice about writing clearly and concisely. This is especially true around the holidays when we are sharing our favorite recipes with our readers. Do you have any thoughts on this?

Should the units be plural or singular?

I stopped trying to educate the educator and just edited their stuff each time to the the AP style of state abbreviations.

As above, AP style follows most standard conventions on comma usage, but it does have rules for when to use a serial comma (also known as an Oxford comma). • as an adjective, U.S. (no spaces): A U.S. soldier was killed in Baghdad yesterday. Hi, Afton. A great way to remember this exception is to realize that Alaska and Hawaii are not in the contiguous United States and the other exempted states contain five letters or fewer in their names. For words that you cannot find in our AP Style list, use the first-listed abbreviation in Webster’s New World Dictionary. All the other two word states are two letters. CT scan (Computerized tomography) There are exceptions to the two-letter abbreviation punctuation rule, too: In addition, punctuating initialisms is less common in British and Australian English. Also note that AP style spells out the states in the body of a story. ALEXANDRIA, VA.

Horsepower, the common unit of power; i.e., the rate at which work is done. Many newspapers, magazines and public relations offices across the United States use AP style. That’s all the list of AP style state abbreviations and the respective state postal abbreviations for the United States. Feel free to copy edit it if necessary.

As such, when deciding whether to use an abbreviation, think about: For instance, if you were writing for a US audience of broadcasting professionals, you could use the initialism “FCC” with confidence because the readers would know this is the Federal Communications Commission. Now corrected.

Let the context of your particular circumstance determine whether you want to use the abbreviation for organizations and agencies like the GOP, CIA, FBI, etc.

Thoughts?

Can others comment please? The U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual. An edit in those cases seems unremarkable and uncontroversial to me. ABBREVIATIONS United States • as a noun, United States: The prime minister left for the United States yesterday. For instance: Today, POTUS met with the CO of NATO forces and the CMO of WHO at a UN summit to discuss NAFTA. adroll_adv_id = "KRNULS3DQRHXVACWQTZIHM"; Abbreviations are often desired in tabulations and certain types of technical writings.

I felt like an edit Nazi. In terms of punctuation, the AP’s general advice is to use full stops between letters in two-letter initialisms, such as “U.S.,” “U.K.,” “U.N.,” “B.C.,” and “A.D.” But this is only necessary for longer abbreviations when the letters in an initialism would spell an unrelated word otherwise. By now, readers are as familiar with USPS abbreviations as AP’s. AP Style holds that acronyms are formed from the first letters (or letters) of a series of words. Here’s the full AP Stylebook entry on the District of Columbia: “In datelines Washington doesn’t take D.C. Generally use District of Columbia within a story only for official designations, such as local government names, or to avoid confusion with other localities of that name. Let us save you time and money by creating the content you need! If in your mind the Arkansas abbreviation will always be AR and Missouri abbreviation MO, then so be it! Below are the 50 AP Style state abbreviations (postal code abbreviations are in parenthesis). BP (British Petroleum) But I must note that one of my pet peeves is using “every day” as one word when it should be two. The basic AP Style rules for geographic names are below.

You may not be aware of AP style state abbreviations if you are not a journalist or a PR professional. Is the superscript required or not?

Some organizations and government agencies are widely recognized by their initials and can be referred to using their abbreviations. The state abbreviations always consist of two capital letters without any space or period in it. even though people get the “A” states confused (hint: Southern “A” states are first two letters — Alabama AL, Arkansas AR — while Western “A” states’ second letter is the unusual syllable — Alaska AK, Arizona AZ). Do not use the postal abbreviations for state names. You may not be aware of AP style state abbreviations if you are not a journalist or a PR professional. The AP style is based on the guidelines from the “Associated Press Stylebook” mainly aimed for journalists and news media to maintain uniformity and ease of reading. Your email address will not be published. Our company uses AP style and I receive info from an educator on a weekly basis. I apologize if this is already mentioned in the article. Correct: In 900 B.C. I am taking a trip to Athens, Mississippi, to see the landscape.

Generally AP Style omits periods in acronyms, unless doing so would spell an unrelated word. The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law official style guide of the Associated Press, a not-for-profit news agency that’s been around since 1846. (No comma after state abbreviation because it ends the sentence). A Quick Guide to Abbreviations in AP Style. Thanks for reading!

You should use only an initial capital letter then lowercase for acronyms of more than six letters, unless listed otherwise in our AP Style list or Webster’s New World College Dictionary. Because nothing can ever truly be simple, abbreviated state names still are used in the following: AP style isn’t keen on using state abbreviations in titles, so spell them out.

A good way to remember these eight is to always spell out the names of the two states outside the contiguous United States (Hawaii and Alaska) and the states inside the contiguous United States with five letters or less. But don’t cook up any trouble! In conjunction with the name of a city, town, village, or military base in most. Unlike many style guides, AP style says not to introduce abbreviations in brackets alongside the full terminology. See the example given above by Mr.Z-man or search wikipedia for 'more horsepower'. —MJCdetroit 18:22, 22 May 2007 (UTC), What happens when you use a decimal or fraction, eg 0.6 kilometers. ; at 10:30 p.m., in theater No. ), My hometown is Springfield, IL. BlueAg09 (Talk) 06:29, 22 May 2007 (UTC), Everyone seems to be happy with this, so I've added it. But what does it say about acronyms and initialisms? This is bad AP style usage because when writing out the numbers of the scores there must be a hyphen between the two numbers, not “to”, and the numbers must be in numerals. As it is necessary, use New York state to differentiate the state of New York from New York City. The other states, however, retain their periods when appearing in headlines (Mich., Wyo., Pa., etc.). This new FAI scheme will improve access to youth sport… ✓. Similarly saying 'more pounds' or 'more kilograms' really means 'more weight'. Make sure you’re sticking to these AP guidelines so your readers have an easy time recreating your dishes in their kitchens. That works fine for something like "5 feet (1.5 m)", but is this also how multi-dimensional conversions are supposed be formatted? Mixing English/SI units in a single article, a single sentence even, Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers), Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)/Archive_71&oldid=437462898, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 2 July 2011, at 22:32. The postal code abbreviation is “CA,” but AP uses that only with full addresses. The AP warns against alphabet soup.

You should abbreviate titles when they are used before a full name. The AP Stylebook has a lot of helpful advice about writing clearly and concisely. This is especially true around the holidays when we are sharing our favorite recipes with our readers. Do you have any thoughts on this?

Should the units be plural or singular?

I stopped trying to educate the educator and just edited their stuff each time to the the AP style of state abbreviations.

As above, AP style follows most standard conventions on comma usage, but it does have rules for when to use a serial comma (also known as an Oxford comma). • as an adjective, U.S. (no spaces): A U.S. soldier was killed in Baghdad yesterday. Hi, Afton. A great way to remember this exception is to realize that Alaska and Hawaii are not in the contiguous United States and the other exempted states contain five letters or fewer in their names. For words that you cannot find in our AP Style list, use the first-listed abbreviation in Webster’s New World Dictionary. All the other two word states are two letters. CT scan (Computerized tomography) There are exceptions to the two-letter abbreviation punctuation rule, too: In addition, punctuating initialisms is less common in British and Australian English. Also note that AP style spells out the states in the body of a story. ALEXANDRIA, VA.

Horsepower, the common unit of power; i.e., the rate at which work is done. Many newspapers, magazines and public relations offices across the United States use AP style. That’s all the list of AP style state abbreviations and the respective state postal abbreviations for the United States. Feel free to copy edit it if necessary.

As such, when deciding whether to use an abbreviation, think about: For instance, if you were writing for a US audience of broadcasting professionals, you could use the initialism “FCC” with confidence because the readers would know this is the Federal Communications Commission. Now corrected.

Let the context of your particular circumstance determine whether you want to use the abbreviation for organizations and agencies like the GOP, CIA, FBI, etc.

Thoughts?

Can others comment please? The U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual. An edit in those cases seems unremarkable and uncontroversial to me. ABBREVIATIONS United States • as a noun, United States: The prime minister left for the United States yesterday. For instance: Today, POTUS met with the CO of NATO forces and the CMO of WHO at a UN summit to discuss NAFTA. adroll_adv_id = "KRNULS3DQRHXVACWQTZIHM"; Abbreviations are often desired in tabulations and certain types of technical writings.

I felt like an edit Nazi. In terms of punctuation, the AP’s general advice is to use full stops between letters in two-letter initialisms, such as “U.S.,” “U.K.,” “U.N.,” “B.C.,” and “A.D.” But this is only necessary for longer abbreviations when the letters in an initialism would spell an unrelated word otherwise. By now, readers are as familiar with USPS abbreviations as AP’s. AP Style holds that acronyms are formed from the first letters (or letters) of a series of words. Here’s the full AP Stylebook entry on the District of Columbia: “In datelines Washington doesn’t take D.C. Generally use District of Columbia within a story only for official designations, such as local government names, or to avoid confusion with other localities of that name. Let us save you time and money by creating the content you need! If in your mind the Arkansas abbreviation will always be AR and Missouri abbreviation MO, then so be it! Below are the 50 AP Style state abbreviations (postal code abbreviations are in parenthesis). BP (British Petroleum) But I must note that one of my pet peeves is using “every day” as one word when it should be two. The basic AP Style rules for geographic names are below.

You may not be aware of AP style state abbreviations if you are not a journalist or a PR professional. Is the superscript required or not?

Some organizations and government agencies are widely recognized by their initials and can be referred to using their abbreviations. The state abbreviations always consist of two capital letters without any space or period in it. even though people get the “A” states confused (hint: Southern “A” states are first two letters — Alabama AL, Arkansas AR — while Western “A” states’ second letter is the unusual syllable — Alaska AK, Arizona AZ). Do not use the postal abbreviations for state names. You may not be aware of AP style state abbreviations if you are not a journalist or a PR professional. The AP style is based on the guidelines from the “Associated Press Stylebook” mainly aimed for journalists and news media to maintain uniformity and ease of reading. Your email address will not be published. Our company uses AP style and I receive info from an educator on a weekly basis. I apologize if this is already mentioned in the article. Correct: In 900 B.C. I am taking a trip to Athens, Mississippi, to see the landscape.

Generally AP Style omits periods in acronyms, unless doing so would spell an unrelated word. The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law official style guide of the Associated Press, a not-for-profit news agency that’s been around since 1846. (No comma after state abbreviation because it ends the sentence). A Quick Guide to Abbreviations in AP Style. Thanks for reading!

You should use only an initial capital letter then lowercase for acronyms of more than six letters, unless listed otherwise in our AP Style list or Webster’s New World College Dictionary. Because nothing can ever truly be simple, abbreviated state names still are used in the following: AP style isn’t keen on using state abbreviations in titles, so spell them out.

A good way to remember these eight is to always spell out the names of the two states outside the contiguous United States (Hawaii and Alaska) and the states inside the contiguous United States with five letters or less. But don’t cook up any trouble! In conjunction with the name of a city, town, village, or military base in most. Unlike many style guides, AP style says not to introduce abbreviations in brackets alongside the full terminology. See the example given above by Mr.Z-man or search wikipedia for 'more horsepower'. —MJCdetroit 18:22, 22 May 2007 (UTC), What happens when you use a decimal or fraction, eg 0.6 kilometers. ; at 10:30 p.m., in theater No. ), My hometown is Springfield, IL. BlueAg09 (Talk) 06:29, 22 May 2007 (UTC), Everyone seems to be happy with this, so I've added it. But what does it say about acronyms and initialisms? This is bad AP style usage because when writing out the numbers of the scores there must be a hyphen between the two numbers, not “to”, and the numbers must be in numerals. As it is necessary, use New York state to differentiate the state of New York from New York City. The other states, however, retain their periods when appearing in headlines (Mich., Wyo., Pa., etc.). This new FAI scheme will improve access to youth sport… ✓. Similarly saying 'more pounds' or 'more kilograms' really means 'more weight'. Make sure you’re sticking to these AP guidelines so your readers have an easy time recreating your dishes in their kitchens. That works fine for something like "5 feet (1.5 m)", but is this also how multi-dimensional conversions are supposed be formatted? Mixing English/SI units in a single article, a single sentence even, Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers), Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)/Archive_71&oldid=437462898, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 2 July 2011, at 22:32. The postal code abbreviation is “CA,” but AP uses that only with full addresses. The AP warns against alphabet soup.

You should abbreviate titles when they are used before a full name. The AP Stylebook has a lot of helpful advice about writing clearly and concisely. This is especially true around the holidays when we are sharing our favorite recipes with our readers. Do you have any thoughts on this?

Should the units be plural or singular?

I stopped trying to educate the educator and just edited their stuff each time to the the AP style of state abbreviations.

As above, AP style follows most standard conventions on comma usage, but it does have rules for when to use a serial comma (also known as an Oxford comma). • as an adjective, U.S. (no spaces): A U.S. soldier was killed in Baghdad yesterday. Hi, Afton. A great way to remember this exception is to realize that Alaska and Hawaii are not in the contiguous United States and the other exempted states contain five letters or fewer in their names. For words that you cannot find in our AP Style list, use the first-listed abbreviation in Webster’s New World Dictionary. All the other two word states are two letters. CT scan (Computerized tomography) There are exceptions to the two-letter abbreviation punctuation rule, too: In addition, punctuating initialisms is less common in British and Australian English. Also note that AP style spells out the states in the body of a story. ALEXANDRIA, VA.

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