Here's the style sheet Alexis and I agreed on. Any questions, comments, whatever - just ask one of us. Enjoy!
Style Sheet
A-D
apologize
backyard
CDs
cell phone
E-J
Easter Bunny
fairy tale (noun)
fairytale (adj.)
Fox News
GameCube
googles (use the search engine)
high school
housewife
K-N
Kraft Dinner
LA
literature
Mom (proper name)
Nescafé
Nike-wearing
O-S
okay
prerequisite
soulmate
T-Z
T-shirt
thank you
traveller
TV
wild west
Other
-one space after periods
-no serial commas
-punctuation inside quotations
-spaces before and after m-dash
-no indent when there is an extra break between paragraphs
-no space after ellipses
-spelled-out numbers (from one to ten)
-brand names capitalized
What's the source for fairytale as an adj? I think it should be fairy-tale. Almost all multi-word nouns that become adjectives require a hyphen.
ReplyDeleteAlso, having a space on either side of an em-dash seems unconventional, but maybe it's different for newspapers?
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