AP Style

use of names

full name on first reference, last name thereafter

if two people with the same last name are quoted in a story

use first and last name for both the entire time

numbers (word or number)

spell out numbers under 10 UNLESS: address, age, money, measurements, temperature, percentages, etc.

age

15-year-old

numbers in millions/billions

don't use all numbers (3,000,000), use number and word million/billion (3 million)

numbers at the beginning of a sentence

spell out the number unless it's a year

monetary values

no extra zeros ($6 not $6.00 or six dollars) but $2.30 is okay

cities with state names

not all cities need state names

if they have them use abbreviations not postal code (Portland, Ore. NOT Portland, OR)

name of composition titles

quotations unless reference, newspaper, or magazine then don't put anything around it

first letter of a quote

capitalize if it is a full sentence quote

full sentence quote followed by attribution

use a comma unless it's a question ("We were excited," Jones said. "Were we excited?" Jones asked.)

specific dates

abbreviate months with 6+ letters, spell out months with five or less letters

months without a specific date

spell out completely

days of the month

number only, don't use th, st, nd, etc. (Aug. 2 NOT Aug. 2nd)

days of the week

don't abbreviate days of the week

usually don't need both day of week and a date

commas in a simple series

just don't use Oxford Commas unless it would be confusing without it

TV show title

in quotes

song title

in quotes