AP STYLE
AP Style Titles
n job titles, the title is capitalized before a name, but if the title comes after the name it is lowercase. Film, book, and song titles are capitalized and places in quotations. For reference books, newspapers, and magazine names, they should not be placed in quotations. For all titles in AP Style, there is NO underlining or italicizing.
When first referencing someone's name, use their full name. After the first mention, use only the last name. Also on first mention, spell out abbreviations or acronyms. After the first reference, use abbreviations. Capitalize the names of people, places, or things, but use lowercase letters for common nouns. Unless a courtesy title is used in a direct quote, do not use them in an article.
When first referencing someone's name, use their full name. After the first mention, use only the last name. Also on first mention, spell out abbreviations or acronyms. After the first reference, use abbreviations. Capitalize the names of people, places, or things, but use lowercase letters for common nouns. Unless a courtesy title is used in a direct quote, do not use them in an article.
MLA Style Titles
In MLA style writing, titles of books, plays, and singularly published works are italicized, unless they are handwritten where underlining will be accepted. Also, titles of poems and short stories or works published in an anthropology use quotation marks. For uppercase abbreviations in MLA Style, you cannot use periods or spaces in abbreviations of only capital letters, except in the case of proper names. Examples: US, MA, HTML, B. P. Davis, P. E. Sawyer
For lower case letter abbreviations, you can use a period if the abbreviation ends in a lower case letter unless you are referring to something on the Internet, where you would use a period before the abbreviation.
Examples: Eng., conf.
For lower case letter abbreviations, you can use a period if the abbreviation ends in a lower case letter unless you are referring to something on the Internet, where you would use a period before the abbreviation.
Examples: Eng., conf.
Using Commas
- In a simple series, you cannot use commas before "and."
- After a period, you must use a singles.
- In a simple series, you cannot use a comma before a conjunction.
- Commas and periods go within quotation marks.
- Commas are used to introduce a complete direct quote.
Introductory Clauses
- Introductory clauses are independent clauses that provide background information for the main part of the sentence.
- They always start with adverbs.
Appositives
- Appositive is a noun if a pronoun set beside another noun or pronoun to explain or identify it. (ex. My brother's car, a sporty blue convertible with leather seats, is the envy of my friends.)
- They usually follow the word it explains/identifies, but it may also precede it.
- If the sentence is clear without the appositive, commas are necessary before or after the positive.
- If the noun is I'd too general with ought appositive, don't put a comma.
- If the information is essential, there should be no commas around the appositive, but if the information is not essential, there should be commas around the appositive.
Quotation Marks
- Quotation are supposed to be put around books, songs, television shows, computer games, poems, lectures, speeches, and works of art titles.
- Quotation marks are not to be put around magazines, newspapers, and reference materials.
- Commas and periods to within quotation marks.
- For a quote within another quote, a single quotation mark is used.
Lists
- Numbered lists can be useful to show a chronology of events, like each items relative importance.
- The list if items can because in single sentences or full paragraphs, and in either case the first letter is capitalized with the appropriate punctuation.
- Use numerals for fractions and decimals.
- Avoid using ordinals when you are writing dates.