AP Stylebook

10/10/2025

Capitalize office when it is part of an agency's formal name: Office of Management and Budget.
Check out our AP Stylebook Online Topical Guide with terms related to the U.S. government shutdown for details.

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10/09/2025

Our mergers and acquisitions guidance advises:
Lead with the full name of the buyer and include a descriptive size and scope, explain the terms and value of the deal as simply as possible (all cash? cash and stock? all stock?) while adding the name of the company to be acquired, and provide a reason why the deal is happening – or, if the release is mum on that point, a description of what the combined company will look like or the capabilities it will have (making it the world's biggest maker of fish tacos).
Find more help for writing about acquisitions in the Stylebook's business chapter.

Electronic Arts, the video game maker, is being acquired and taken private for about $52.5 billion in what could become the largest-ever buyout funded by private-equity firms.

10/09/2025

If you're covering the federal government shutdown, check out our quick AP Stylebook Online Topical Guide with terms related to the shutdown.
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10/08/2025

The five Nobel Prizes established under terms of the will of Alfred Nobel are: Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Prize in literature, Nobel Prize in physics, Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. (Note the capitalization styles.)
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (officially it is the cumbersome Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) is not a Nobel Prize in the same sense. The Central Bank of Sweden established it in 1968 as a memorial to Alfred Nobel.

They won for their work on peripheral immune tolerance, which is one way the body helps keep the immune system from getting out of whack and attacking your own tissues..

10/07/2025

It’s not too late to join the AP Stylebook Workshop on AP style mechanics. Watch the recording of our first webinar, then join us live on Wednesday morning for the second of four Zoom sessions. This week, Stylebook editor Anna Jo Bratton will go deep on capitalization and numbers.

Join editors from The Associated Press for one or both engaging AP Stylebook Workshops in fall 2025, and you'll build your knowledge of AP style and your confidence in how to apply it to your work. First, AP Stylebook Workshop 101: Master the Mechanics will focus on the fundamentals including punctu...

10/07/2025

When workers are furloughed, they are let go by an employer but are considered on a leave of absence and sometimes remain eligible for benefits such as health insurance.
Employees who are laid off are considered permanently let go.

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10/06/2025

It's the Professional Golfers' Association of America (note the apostrophe) or PGA.
The PGA Tour is a separate organization made up of competing professional golfers. Use tour (lowercase) on second reference.
The PGA conducts the PGA Championship, the Senior PGA Championship and the Ryder Cup, as well as other golf championships not associated with the PGA Tour.

Rory McIlroy helped Europe win the Ryder Cup and then called out the hostile New York crowd for “unacceptable and abusive behavior.”

10/03/2025

We updated our guidance on bulleted lists in 2024, and now AP style calls for no punctuation at the end of a single word or single phrase in each section of a list.

10/02/2025

Shutdown as a noun is one word, it's two words shut down when used as a verb.

10/01/2025

Note the capitalization and punctuation of Latter-day in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The church in 2018 began moving away from the widely recognized terms Mormon church and LDS church, and now prefers that its full name be used and that members be referred to as Latter-day Saints.

The shooting happened Sunday at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, about 50 miles north of Detroit.

10/01/2025

If you meant to sign up for the AP Stylebook Workshop and time got away from you, it's not too late.
The first live session is at 11 a.m. Eastern today, but you can also watch a recording at your convenience.
Come learn about AP style directly from the editors who write the rules.

Join editors from The Associated Press for one or both engaging AP Stylebook Workshops in fall 2025, and you'll build your knowledge of AP style and your confidence in how to apply it to your work. First, AP Stylebook Workshop 101: Master the Mechanics will focus on the fundamentals including punctu...

09/30/2025

AP style generally hyphenates words with the suffix -free.
Examples include duty-free, fat-free, hands-free, interest-free, germ-free, scot-free, sugar-free, tax-free.
But: carefree.