Editorial Style Guide
The Editorial Style Guide is used to edit copy of all materials produced by University Communications staff. We also use the Associated Press Stylebook and The Chicago Manual of Style.
We welcome your comments on the Editorial Style Guide.
Most names (Jeffrey Cepeda, Tony Laller, etc.) used in the examples in this guide are figments of our fertile imagination and are not meant to represent any person, living or dead. A few names (Joe DiMaggio, Colin Powell, etc.) are those of real people who have no connection to Portland State.
- Abbreviation
- Capitalization
- Correspondence
- Lists
- Names + Titles
- Numbers
- Punctuation + Symbols
- Words + Usage
- Affirmative Action Statement [details coming soon]
