AP Styles to Watch

Highlights

In general, avoid unnecessary capitalization.
The title Dr. is used only for medical doctors, not someone with a doctorate.
In general, formal titles are capitalized only when they precede a name, not after. This includes 鈥淏arack Obama, president of the United States.鈥�
Use a hyphen for both first-grader and first-grade student.
Use figures for numbers of 10 and higher, except when they begin a sentence.
In a series of items, AP style calls for no comma before the final 鈥渁nd,鈥� such as in 鈥渞ed, white and blue.鈥�
Periods and commas are always placed within quotation marks, never outside.

4 p.m., not 4:00 p.m.
2013鈥�14, not 2013鈥�2014
After the Center for the Study of Snowboarding has been introduced, use 鈥渃enter鈥� on second reference, not 鈥淐enter.鈥�
The word 鈥渦niversity鈥� is not capitalized when used by itself.
After Professor John Smith has been introduced use 鈥淪mith鈥� on second reference, not 鈥淧rofessor Smith.鈥�
When introducing multiple professors, make 鈥減rofessors鈥� lowercase, as in 鈥減rofessors John Smith, John Jones and Jim Johnson.鈥�
Corporation is always abbreviated as Corp. Company is always abbreviated as Co. And if a company name ends in Inc., Co. or Corp. do not set it off by a comma.
A premiere is a first performance. Premier means first in importance or rank.
Underway is always one word.
Do not capitalize the word city in 鈥渃ity of鈥� phrases such as 鈥渃ity of Boulder.鈥�