and for titles: Quote Marks, Italics, Underline or Naked: AP vs Chicago style
Titles
• Capitalize and spell out formal titles such
as professor, dean, president and chancellor when they PRECEDE a name.
• LOWERCASE elsewhere.
• Occupational titles are always lowercase, such as
senior vice president Nancy Schmancy
TV, movie, book, newspaper titles:
• Use quotation marks for albums, TV shows, movies, works
of art, speeches books, video games
• Do NOT italicize or put quotation marks around
magazines and newspapers.
Vocabulary/words/spelling
- The words toward, upward, forward and backward do NOT end is S. For instance: She ran toward the front of the room.
- Use "more than" not over -- when you refer to numbers, for instance, More than 400 people came to the party. Not Over 400 people were at the party.
- Use fewer than -- not less than -- when referring to numbers. There were fewer than six people in line. Not -- There was less than six people in line.
- Blond is a noun for males and an adjective for males and females, as in She had blond hair. Blonde stands alone for a woman, as in, She was a blonde
- Fractions standing alone are spelled out, as in One-fourth of the students were absent.
Abbreviations:
- When using a month with a specific date abbreviate the following months Jan. (as in Jan. 1). Feb., Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov., and Dec. Spellout when using alone or with just a year. Don't abbreviate: March, April, May, June and July. Don't capitalize the seasons in general.
- For numbered addresses, abbreviate Ave., Blvd. and St. Not Road.
Capitalization
- Capitalize iPad and iPhone when beginning a sentence.. It's Google, Googling, Googled.
- Academic degrees are not capitalized, as in She had a bachelor's degree and a master's degree.
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