AP Style

Choose the sentence that correctly uses AP style for abbreviations:

• Ms. Pearce should be the editor of that publication.
• Pearce should be the editor of that publication.

Choose the sentence that correctly uses AP style for abbreviations: (careful, it's a trap!)

• The meeting date was two weeks ago, on Sept. 30.
• The meeting date was two weeks ago, on September 30.
• The meeting date was two weeks ago, on Sept. 30, 2005.
• The meeting date was two weeks ago, on September 30, 2005.

Choose the sentence that correctly uses AP style for abbreviations: 

• Marshall asked whether they could meet again in early Oct.
• Marshall asked whether they could meet again in early October.

School starts Jan./January 9.

• Jan.
• January

The bassoon camp begins at Ball State University on June 9/9th.

• 9
• 9th

In the astronomy class, however, only 3/three people earned an A.

• 3
• three

They woke up at 5 a.m./am ready to go fishing.

• a.m.
• am

The administrators asked for a $3 million/three million dollar increase in the budget.

• $3 Million
• three million

Click on the sentence that uses correct AP style for numbers:

• 35 police officers attended the ceremony.
• Thirty-five police officers attended the ceremony.

Click on the sentence that uses correct AP style for numbers:

• Two thousand and five was a dangerous year to be a journalist.
• Two-thousand-and-five was a dangerous year to be a journalist.
• 2005 was a dangerous year to be a journalist.