Have a style question?
- The first point of reference is always this in-house style guide.
- If you can’t find your answer there, consult the 2006 AP Stylebook.
- If it’s not in there, consult Webster’s New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition.
- And if you’re still not sure, ask!
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- a.m.
- a while
- not “awhile”
- adapter
- not “adaptor”
- Apple Computer, Inc.
- Apple-1
- Apple II
- Apple II Plus
- not “Apple II+”
- Apple IIc
- Apple IIe
- Apple IIGS
- Capitalized ‘GS’ is changed in font size during layout
- Apple III
- Not “Apple ///”
- Applesoft
- AppleWin
- AppleWorks
- axe
- Not “ax”
- backup
- As a noun, one word; as a verb, two words
- BASIC
- all caps for being an acronym (Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)
- BBS: The Documentary
- Not
The BBS Documentary
- BBSs
- Plural, not “BBSes”
- books
- Titles are italicized
- Brøderbund
- Byte Works
- not “ByteWorks”
- Closed-Apple
- See ” Solid-Apple “
- Copy II Plus
- not “Copy ][ Plus”
- crowdfund
- crowdsource
- currency
- US$10
- data
- Noun, plural of “datum”
- dates
- Spell out months; do not use cardinals. ie, “September 5, 2009” not “Sep 9th, 2009”. Avoid shorthands such as 07/20/10 or 20-Jul-10.
- decades
- Either 1980s or eighties (uncapitalized), not 1980’s, ’80s, or Eighties
- disk
- “Disk” refers to magnetic media; “disc” is for optical media.
- e-book
- hyphenated
- No hyphen
- enhanced
- Enhanced Apple IIe
- emdash
- No space on either side
- filetypes
- One word
- front end
- Two words when used as a noun (i.e. “front end client”)
- gameplay
- One word, not two
- Get Lamp
- Not
GET LAMP
- GitHub
- Not Github
- gray
- Not “grey” (except as in the dog or bus, Greyhound)
- hi-res
- homepage
- One word
- HyperCard IIGS
- “HyperCard” on successive mentions
- inbuilt
- Not “built-in”
- installment
- Not “instalment”
- Internet
- Capitalized
- JavaScript
- Not “Javascript”
- kidnapped
- Not “kidnaped”
- KansasFest
- Not “KFest” — except when referring to attendees as “KFesters”
- labeled
- One ‘l’ is the preferred American spelling
- lo-res
- per Apple’s support document
- Logo
- Not LOGO
- Lukacz, Alex
- Not “Lukazi”, no matter what his website would have you believe
- Mac OS Classic
- Mac OS X
- Up to 10.11 (El Capitan)
- macOS
- Starting with 10.12 (Sierra)
- magazines
- Titles are italicized (includes Juiced.GS
) - memos
- Plural, not “memoes”
- MHz
- Not “Mhz”
- minuscule
- Not “miniscule”
- movies
- Titles are italicized
- myriad
- Used as an adjective, not a noun
- numerals
- From AP vs. Chicago:
- Spell out whole numbers up to (and including) nine (e.g., zero, one, 10, 96, 104).
- Spell out casual expressions: A picture is worth a thousand words, but a really good one is worth a thousand dollars.
Also spell out numbers to avoid two adjacent numerals—eg, “eleven 250-megabyte hard drives”.
- online
- No hyphen
- Open Apple
- Capitalized, italicized, and not hyphenated when referring to podcast
- Open-Apple
- Capitalized & hyphenated when referring to key
- p.m.
- platinum
- Platinum Apple IIe
- podcasts
- Titles are italicized
- Print Shop, The
- not “PrintShop”
- ProSel
- not “ProSEL”
- quotation marks
- Put punctuation marks outside it, unless it is part of the quotation
- regardless
- Not “irregardless”
- Replica 1
- Vince Briel’s Apple-1 clone (
changed from Replica I for the Dec 2013 issue
) - ROM 01
- ROM 3
- Not “ROM 03”
- schtick
- screencast
- screenshot
- serial comma
- Goes before the last item in a list
- shorthand
- Solid-Apple
- Capitalized & hyphenated
- software
- Titles are not italicized, underlined, or otherwise emphasized
- SmartPort
- standalone
- Toolbox
- As defined by the Apple II
GS
Toolbox manuals - Tool Set
- As defined by the Apple II
GS
Toolbox manuals - toward
- Not “towards”
- TransWarp
- traveling
- One ‘l’ is the preferred American spelling
- Unix
- Usenet
- Uthernet
- Virtual II
- Not “Virtual ][“
- Web
- Short for the World Wide Web
- website
- webmaster
- Wi-Fi
- worshipped
- Not “worshiped”
- X/Y/ZMODEM
- XMODEM
- YMODEM
- ZMODEM
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