The Associated Press Stylebook 2013 by Associated Press

But the online stylebook has a host of new and revised entries on the virus, among other things that we will cover later.Ī new entry explains that “vaccine” and “vaccination” are often interchangeable. The 2020 print edition does include “coronavirus” and “COVID-19,” which just squeaked in before publication.

So, if you hadn’t noticed, “Uighurs” became “Uyghurs,” to better reflect the transliteration from the Arabic alphabet injuries can be “sustained” or “received,” not just “suffered” (though just saying “she was injured” is shorter) and it’s fine to use “PPE” on second reference for “personal protection equipment,” a term so newly familiar that it wasn’t even in the 2020 print edition. And AP reserved fewer of its changes for the virtual ACES conference, opting instead to make many more changes that applied to coverage of quick-moving news events-including the pandemic and social-justice movements-during the year. No new AP print edition will appear this year: as AP said last year, it is switching publication of the print book to every other year, and it will not include every entry. (Full disclosure: this columnist is a member of the ACES executive committee.)īut, as with so much else these days, things are different. Those changes would often cause a stir, because they would be intended for that year’s print stylebook and would first appear in the online stylebook after the ACES announcement. In fact, if you haven’t looked at the AP stylebook online since April 23, you’re already out of date.Īt this time of year, the AP usually announces some of its more important style changes at the annual conference of ACES: The Society for Editing. If you have a printed copy of the Associated Press Stylebook, even the 2020 edition, you’re out of date.

The Associated Press Stylebook 2013 by Associated Press