In a draft, I noticed this sentence: "On August 24th the state of California released the results of..." This sentence has at lease one mistake, according to AP Style (the preferred style guide for newspapers and the one that we, as a staff, are supposed to use). First, the date is written incorrectly. Here, from Google, is how a date should be written in AP Style: Second, AP Style has rules about how to write abbreviations for all but eight states - shouldn't we use Calif.? I'm glad you remember that there are special rules for states, but in this case it is correct to spell out the state. The guidelines state:
Spell out the names of the 50 U.S. states when they stand alone in textual material. Any state name may be condensed, however, to fit typographical requirements for tabular material. Here is a link to the rules about states and their abbreviations, but you can always just Google "AP Style States" too: http://apstylebook.blogspot.com/2009/06/state-names.html So, the sentence above, corrected, should read: "On Aug. 24 the state of California released the results of..." 1/17/2017 11:54:40 am
The sentence still contains one error, namely the oversight of the official names of our states. Comments are closed.
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