Talk:AP style quick reminders

Read through the full online writing style guide for more information.

Only one space between sentences.

Commas and periods ALWAYS go inside quotation marks.

St. Louis not Saint Louis

Dates and times: 7 p.m. 11 a.m. noon September 25 (not September 25th)

Numbers: one through nine are written as words; 10 and above are figures (10, 20, 35, 150 etc.)

Include the state, fully spelled out (not abbreviated) with cities that are not unique or are potentially ambiguous: Gary, Indiana; Springfield, Illinois, Portland, Oregon

Use proper titling for composition titles: (lower case insignificant words (prepositions, articles, conjunctions) of three letters or less)

Do not indent paragraphs, instead enter an extra return between paragraphs.

Turn off smart or "curly" quotes, or use this tool to clean up your text before pasting. jhy.io/tools/convert-word-to-plain-text

Composition titles, like play titles, go in double quotation marks in text. Do not italicize such titles.

Do not use the serial (Oxford) comma unless to avoid ambiguity. That's the final comma before the "and" in a series of items: "Hamlet," "Macbeth" and "The Tempest" are my three favorite plays.