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The first publicly available edition of the book was published in 1953. The first modern edition was published in August 1977 by [[Lorenz Press]]. Afterwards, various paperback editions were published by different publishers including, among others, Turtleback Books, [[Penguin Random House|Penguin]]'s Laurel Press, [[Pearson plc|Pearson]]'s [[Addison-Wesley]], and [[Hachette Books|Hachette]]'s [[Perseus Books Group|Perseus Books]] and [[Basic Books]]. Recent editions are released in several formats, including [[paperback]] and flat-lying [[Coil binding|spiral-bound]] editions, as well as a digital [[e-book]] edition and an online subscription version. Additionally, the ''AP Stylebook'' also provides English grammar recommendations through social media, including [[Twitter]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/ApStyleBook |title=AP Stylebook (APStylebook) on Twitter |publisher=Twitter.com |access-date=March 21, 2011}}</ref> [[Facebook]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/apstylebook |title=AP Stylebook |publisher=Facebook |access-date=June 25, 2013}}</ref> [[Pinterest]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pinterest.com/APStylebook/ |title=AP Stylebook |publisher=Pinterest |access-date=June 25, 2013}}</ref> and [[Instagram]].<ref>{{cite web| url= https://instagram.com/apstylebook/ |title= AP Stylebook | publisher= Instagram |access-date= June 9, 2021}}</ref>
The first publicly available edition of the book was published in 1953. The first modern edition was published in August 1977 by [[Lorenz Press]]. Afterwards, various paperback editions were published by different publishers including, among others, Turtleback Books, [[Penguin Random House|Penguin]]'s Laurel Press, [[Pearson plc|Pearson]]'s [[Addison-Wesley]], and [[Hachette Books|Hachette]]'s [[Perseus Books Group|Perseus Books]] and [[Basic Books]]. Recent editions are released in several formats, including [[paperback]] and flat-lying [[Coil binding|spiral-bound]] editions, as well as a digital [[e-book]] edition and an online subscription version. Additionally, the ''AP Stylebook'' also provides English grammar recommendations through social media, including [[Twitter]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/ApStyleBook |title=AP Stylebook (APStylebook) on Twitter |publisher=Twitter.com |access-date=March 21, 2011}}</ref> [[Facebook]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/apstylebook |title=AP Stylebook |publisher=Facebook |access-date=June 25, 2013}}</ref> [[Pinterest]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pinterest.com/APStylebook/ |title=AP Stylebook |publisher=Pinterest |access-date=June 25, 2013}}</ref> and [[Instagram]].<ref>{{cite web| url= https://instagram.com/apstylebook/ |title= AP Stylebook | publisher= Instagram |access-date= June 9, 2021}}</ref>


From 1977 to 2005, more than two million copies of the ''AP Stylebook'' have been sold worldwide, with that number climbing to 2.5 million by 2011.<ref>[https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=_oDnBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA378 The AP Stylebook as journalistic tool and sociolingustic resource] // Androutsopoulos, Jannis (2014). ''Mediatization and Sociolinguistic Change.'' Munich: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. 564 p.: pp. 377–381</ref><ref name="AP_2005">{{cite web|url=http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_041305a.html |title=2005 Edition of AP Stylebook now available |work=AP.org |date=April 2005|publisher=Associated Press |access-date=March 21, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110119025351/http://ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_041305a.html |archive-date=January 19, 2011 }}</ref> Writers in [[broadcasting]], news, magazine publishing, marketing departments and public relations firms traditionally adopt and apply AP grammar and punctuation styles.
From 1977 to 2005, more than two million copies of the ''AP Stylebook'' have been sold worldwide, with that number climbing to 2.5 million by 2011.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Androutsopoulos|first=Jannis|url=https://books.google.com.ua/books?id&#61;_oDnBQAAQBAJ&pg&#61;PA378|title=Mediatization and Sociolinguistic Change|date=2014-09-04|publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG|isbn=978-3-11-034683-1|language=en}}</ref><ref name="AP_2005">{{cite web|url=http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_041305a.html |title=2005 Edition of AP Stylebook now available |work=AP.org |date=April 2005|publisher=Associated Press |access-date=March 21, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110119025351/http://ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_041305a.html |archive-date=January 19, 2011 }}</ref> Writers in [[broadcasting]], news, magazine publishing, marketing departments and public relations firms traditionally adopt and apply AP grammar and punctuation styles.


==Organization==
==Organization==
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From 1909, when the first company-wide stylebook-like guide was released internally under the title: ''"The Associate Press Rules Regulations and General Orders"'', and until 1953, the stylebook was published under different titles including, among others, ''Instructions for Correspondents of the Associated Press'', ''The Associated Press. Regulations Traffic Department'', ''A Guide for Filing Editors. The Associated Press'', ''A Guide for Foreign Correspondents. The Associated Press'', ''A Guide for Writers. The Associated Press'', ''The AP Copy Book'', and ''AP Writing Handbook''.
From 1909, when the first company-wide stylebook-like guide was released internally under the title: ''"The Associate Press Rules Regulations and General Orders"'', and until 1953, the stylebook was published under different titles including, among others, ''Instructions for Correspondents of the Associated Press'', ''The Associated Press. Regulations Traffic Department'', ''A Guide for Filing Editors. The Associated Press'', ''A Guide for Foreign Correspondents. The Associated Press'', ''A Guide for Writers. The Associated Press'', ''The AP Copy Book'', and ''AP Writing Handbook''.


By the end of WWII, pressures from a growing number of non-journalistic business sectors, already referencing copied or confiscated copies of the guide for years, greatly increased the stylebook's demand. The first publicly available edition of ''AP Stylebook'' was published in 1953 under the title ''"The Associated Press Style Book"''. Since 1953, the stylebook has been published under different titles, including ''Writing for The AP''; ''AP Stylebook''; and ''The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual''.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120718022456/http://lccn.loc.gov/96644756 Library of Congress Catalog Record] for ''The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual''</ref>
By the end of WWII, pressures from a growing number of non-journalistic business sectors, already referencing copied or confiscated copies of the guide for years, greatly increased the stylebook's demand. The first publicly available edition of ''AP Stylebook'' was published in 1953 under the title ''"The Associated Press Style Book"''. Since 1953, the stylebook has been published under different titles, including ''Writing for The AP''; ''AP Stylebook''; and ''The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=archive.ph|url=https://archive.ph/20120718022456/http://lccn.loc.gov/96644756|access-date=2023-02-03|website=archive.ph}}</ref>


Some journalists have referred to ''The AP Stylebook'' as the 'journalist bible'.<ref>[http://gouletcommunications.com/ap-stylebook-remains-compelling-read/ 'journalist bible'.]</ref>
Some journalists have referred to ''The AP Stylebook'' as the 'journalist bible'.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Goulet|first=Neal|date=2014-02-09|title=AP Stylebook remains a compelling and necessary read|url=http://gouletcommunications.com/ap-stylebook-remains-compelling-read/|access-date=2023-02-03|website=Goulet Communications: Public Relations Specialist|language=en-US}}</ref>


In 2000, the guide was renamed ''The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law'' and the paperback edition has been published under this title since then.<ref name="Luckie">{{cite web| url= http://www.10000words.net/2008/02/mans-journalists-best-friend.html| title= The history of the AP Stylebook| author= Mark S. Luckie| publisher= 10,000 Words| date= February 4, 2008| access-date= May 29, 2009| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090501185022/http://www.10000words.net/2008/02/mans-journalists-best-friend.html| archive-date= May 1, 2009| url-status= dead| df= dmy-all}}</ref><ref>[https://archive.today/20120715012012/http://lccn.loc.gov/2002249088 Library of Congress Catalog Record] for ''The Associated Press stylebook and briefing on media law''</ref> Some editions, such as the spiral-bound and [[e-book]] editions, use the shorter title ''The Associated Press Stylebook'' on their covers.
In 2000, the guide was renamed ''The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law'' and the paperback edition has been published under this title since then.<ref name="Luckie">{{cite web| url= http://www.10000words.net/2008/02/mans-journalists-best-friend.html| title= The history of the AP Stylebook| author= Mark S. Luckie| publisher= 10,000 Words| date= February 4, 2008| access-date= May 29, 2009| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090501185022/http://www.10000words.net/2008/02/mans-journalists-best-friend.html| archive-date= May 1, 2009| url-status= dead| df= dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=archive.ph|url=https://archive.ph/20120715012012/http://lccn.loc.gov/2002249088|access-date=2023-02-03|website=archive.ph}}</ref> Some editions, such as the spiral-bound and [[e-book]] editions, use the shorter title ''The Associated Press Stylebook'' on their covers.


==History==
==History==
The Associated Press organization was first created in 1846. The first company-wide AP "guide" did not cover English grammar. It was more of a brochure with 24 pages of various titles and corporate structures of the Associated Press organization and was first published in 1900 under the title "The Associated Press".
The Associated Press organization was first created in 1846. The first company-wide AP "guide" did not cover English grammar. It was more of a brochure with 24 pages of various titles and corporate structures of the Associated Press organization and was first published in 1900 under the title "The Associated Press".


Although a formal English grammar style guide did not exist across the organization through the 1800s, individual bureaus were known to have maintained similar internal style guides as early as the late 1870s. The first corporate-wide style guide, with a complete reference to American English words and grammar, was released in 1909, under the title: ''"The Associate Press Rules Regulations and General Orders"''.{{efn|The [[title page]] has a full title ''Hand Book and Manual of Resolutions of the Board of Directors/General Orders and Instructions to Employees of The Associated Press''.}}<ref name="cjr_1">[https://web.archive.org/web/20180615053220/https://www.cjr.org/language_corner/ap-stylebooks-history.php AP Stylebooks through the ages]. cjr.org, 2018</ref><ref name="AP_Stylebook_origins">[https://web.archive.org/web/20190929060108/https://aceseditors.org/news/2018/style-guide-superjam Style guide superjam]. aceseditors.org, 2018</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190929074402/http://droppdf.com/files/mbb5e/1909-rules-regulations-and-general-orders.pdf The Associated Press Rules Regulations and General Orders (1909)]. AP Editors, 1909</ref>
Although a formal English grammar style guide did not exist across the organization through the 1800s, individual bureaus were known to have maintained similar internal style guides as early as the late 1870s. The first corporate-wide style guide, with a complete reference to American English words and grammar, was released in 1909, under the title: ''"The Associate Press Rules Regulations and General Orders"''.{{efn|The [[title page]] has a full title ''Hand Book and Manual of Resolutions of the Board of Directors/General Orders and Instructions to Employees of The Associated Press''.}}<ref name="cjr_1">{{Cite web|date=2018-06-15|title=AP Stylebooks through the ages - Columbia Journalism Review|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615053220/https://www.cjr.org/language_corner/ap-stylebooks-history.php|access-date=2023-02-03|website=web.archive.org}}</ref><ref name="AP_Stylebook_origins">{{Cite web|date=2019-09-29|title=Style guide superjam &#124; ACES: The Society for Editing|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929060108/https://aceseditors.org/news/2018/style-guide-superjam|access-date=2023-02-03|website=web.archive.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-09-29|title=Wayback Machine|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929074402/http://droppdf.com/files/mbb5e/1909-rules-regulations-and-general-orders.pdf|access-date=2023-02-03|website=web.archive.org}}</ref>


By the early 1950s the publication was formalized into the ''AP Stylebook'' and became the leading professional English grammar reference by most member and non-member news bureaus throughout the world. Due to growing demand by non-member journalists and writers working in public-facing corporate communications, the AP published their first official "stylebook" for the general public in 1953 under the title ''Associated Press Style Book''; the first publication focused on "where the wire set a specific style".<ref name="poynter_1"/><ref name="AP_2013">[https://web.archive.org/web/20130602045515/http://www.ap.org/Content/Press-Release/2013/AP-Stylebook-marks-60th-anniversary-with-new-print-edition AP Stylebook marks 60th anniversary with new print edition]. ap.org, May 2013</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190929051658/https://www.cjr.org/language_corner/ap-stylebooks-language.php The history of AP's guidance on language]. cjr.org, 2018</ref><ref name="usc1"><small>''abridged version:''</small> {{cite web|url=http://www.jour.sc.edu/news/csj/CSJJuly07.html |title=Norm Goldstein, keeper of AP style |publisher= Common Sense Journalism magazine |date= July 2007|access-date=March 21, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921155446/http://www.jour.sc.edu/news/csj/CSJJuly07.html |archive-date=September 21, 2017 }};<br/> <small>''full version:''</small> [https://web.archive.org/web/20190929085144/http://commonsensej.blogspot.com/2007/07/norm-goldstein.html Norm Goldstein]. Common Sense Journalism blog, 2007</ref> For nearly a quarter century it assumed its reader had a "solid grounding in language and a good reference library" and thus omitted any guidelines in those broader areas.<ref name="usc1"/> In 1977, prompted by AP Executive News Editor [[Louis Boccardi|Lou Boccardi]]'s request for "more of a reference work", the organization started expanding the book and in 1977 produced a book that was different in a few fundamental regards.<ref name="usc1"/> Firstly, The structure was changed and entries were organized in alphabetical order so that users could find what they need in a timely manner.<ref>[https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=AgpzAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA35 AP Style] // Heath, Robert L. (2013). ''Encyclopedia of Public Relations''. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications. 1152 p.: pp. 35–36. {{ISBN|9781452276229}}</ref> Secondly, in 1977 the book was published for the first time by a 3rd party publisher – [[Lorenz Press]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190929101040/https://openlibrary.org/books/OL26337279M/The_Associated_Press_stylebook_and_libel_manual The Associated Press stylebook and libel manual (1977)]. openlibrary.org, 2019</ref> Thirdly, in 1977, [[United Press International]] and AP cooperated to produce stylebooks for each organization based on revisions and guidelines jointly agreed to by editors of both ''UPI Stylebook'' (Bobby Ray Miller) and ''AP Stylebook'' (Howard Angione).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.upiu.com/stylebook |title=Introduction to the UPI Stylebook|author= United Press International|date=2009|website= UPIU|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100725083426/http://www.upiu.com/stylebook|archive-date=July 25, 2010}}</ref><ref name="Dorfman_Fuller_1982">[https://archive.org/details/reportingwriting0000dorf Eileen Alt Powell – Media (is) (are) getting new 'bible': Stylebook publication under way (2 words)] // Dorfman, Ron; Fuller Jr., Harry. ''Reporting/writing/editing: the Quill guides to journalism''. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1982. 147 p.: pp. 131–138. {{ISBN|9780840328328}}</ref> In 1982, Eileen Alt Powell, a co-editor of ''AP Stylebook'' 1980 edition, stated that: {{Quote|1=Howard Angione... at times thought the task he and UPI counterpart Bobby Ray Miller had undertaken resembled the quest of Don Quixote. It was "an impossible dream", Angione said, to find style rules that pleased everyone, especially since even grammarians couldn't agree among themselves.<ref name="Dorfman_Fuller_1982"/>}}
By the early 1950s the publication was formalized into the ''AP Stylebook'' and became the leading professional English grammar reference by most member and non-member news bureaus throughout the world. Due to growing demand by non-member journalists and writers working in public-facing corporate communications, the AP published their first official "stylebook" for the general public in 1953 under the title ''Associated Press Style Book''; the first publication focused on "where the wire set a specific style".<ref name="poynter_1"/><ref name="AP_2013">{{Cite web|date=2013-06-02|title=AP Stylebook marks 60th anniversary with new print edition|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130602045515/http://www.ap.org/Content/Press-Release/2013/AP-Stylebook-marks-60th-anniversary-with-new-print-edition|access-date=2023-02-03|website=web.archive.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-09-29|title=The history of AP ‘s guidance on language - Columbia Journalism Review|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929051658/https://www.cjr.org/language_corner/ap-stylebooks-language.php|access-date=2023-02-03|website=web.archive.org}}</ref><ref name="usc1"><small>''abridged version:''</small> {{cite web|url=http://www.jour.sc.edu/news/csj/CSJJuly07.html |title=Norm Goldstein, keeper of AP style |publisher= Common Sense Journalism magazine |date= July 2007|access-date=March 21, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921155446/http://www.jour.sc.edu/news/csj/CSJJuly07.html |archive-date=September 21, 2017 }};<br/> <small>''full version:''</small> [https://web.archive.org/web/20190929085144/http://commonsensej.blogspot.com/2007/07/norm-goldstein.html Norm Goldstein]. Common Sense Journalism blog, 2007</ref> For nearly a quarter century it assumed its reader had a "solid grounding in language and a good reference library" and thus omitted any guidelines in those broader areas.<ref name="usc1"/> In 1977, prompted by AP Executive News Editor [[Louis Boccardi|Lou Boccardi]]'s request for "more of a reference work", the organization started expanding the book and in 1977 produced a book that was different in a few fundamental regards.<ref name="usc1"/> Firstly, The structure was changed and entries were organized in alphabetical order so that users could find what they need in a timely manner.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Heath|first=Robert L.|url=https://books.google.com.ua/books?id&#61;AgpzAwAAQBAJ&pg&#61;PA35|title=Encyclopedia of Public Relations|date=2013-08-20|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-1-4522-7622-9|language=en}}</ref> Secondly, in 1977 the book was published for the first time by a 3rd party publisher – [[Lorenz Press]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-09-29|title=The Associated Press stylebook and libel manual (1977 edition) &#124; Open Library|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929101040/https://openlibrary.org/books/OL26337279M/The_Associated_Press_stylebook_and_libel_manual|access-date=2023-02-03|website=web.archive.org}}</ref> Thirdly, in 1977, [[United Press International]] and AP cooperated to produce stylebooks for each organization based on revisions and guidelines jointly agreed to by editors of both ''UPI Stylebook'' (Bobby Ray Miller) and ''AP Stylebook'' (Howard Angione).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.upiu.com/stylebook |title=Introduction to the UPI Stylebook|author= United Press International|date=2009|website= UPIU|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100725083426/http://www.upiu.com/stylebook|archive-date=July 25, 2010}}</ref><ref name="Dorfman_Fuller_1982">{{Cite book|last=Dorfman|first=Ron|url=http://archive.org/details/reportingwriting0000dorf|title=Reporting/writing/editing : the Quill guides to journalism|last2=Fuller|first2=Harry|last3=Society of Professional Journalists|first3=Sigma Delta Chi|date=1982|publisher=Dubuque, Iowa : Kendall/Hunt|others=Internet Archive|isbn=978-0-8403-2832-8}}</ref> In 1982, Eileen Alt Powell, a co-editor of ''AP Stylebook'' 1980 edition, stated that: {{Quote|1=Howard Angione... at times thought the task he and UPI counterpart Bobby Ray Miller had undertaken resembled the quest of Don Quixote. It was "an impossible dream", Angione said, to find style rules that pleased everyone, especially since even grammarians couldn't agree among themselves.<ref name="Dorfman_Fuller_1982"/>}}


In 1989, Norm Goldstein became the ''AP Stylebook'' lead editor, a job he held until the 2007 edition.<ref name="usc1"/> After publishing the final edition under his editorship, Goldstein commented on the future of the ''AP Stylebook''{{'}}s section on name references: {{Quote|1=I think the difference... now is that there is more information available on the Internet, and I'm not sure, and at least our executive editor is not sure, how much of a reference book we ought to be anymore. I think some of our historical background material like on previous hurricanes and earthquakes, that kind of encyclopedic material that's so easily available on the Internet now, might be cut back.<ref name="usc1"/>}}
In 1989, Norm Goldstein became the ''AP Stylebook'' lead editor, a job he held until the 2007 edition.<ref name="usc1"/> After publishing the final edition under his editorship, Goldstein commented on the future of the ''AP Stylebook''{{'}}s section on name references: {{Quote|1=I think the difference... now is that there is more information available on the Internet, and I'm not sure, and at least our executive editor is not sure, how much of a reference book we ought to be anymore. I think some of our historical background material like on previous hurricanes and earthquakes, that kind of encyclopedic material that's so easily available on the Internet now, might be cut back.<ref name="usc1"/>}}


After Norm Goldstein stepped down as lead editor in 2007, in bibliographical records for all subsequent editions starting from 2008 lead editors' names are usually not explicitly called out and the author is simply referred to as ''Associated Press'' or ''AP Editors''. In 2009 and 2011 the ''Stylebook'' was released as an app called ''AP Stylebook Mobile'' edition for iOS and BlackBerry, respectively,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190929061559/https://crackberry.com/has-your-inkwell-run-dry-ap-stylebook-blackberry-gives-you-refill Has your inkwell run dry? The AP Stylebook for BlackBerry gives you a refill]. crackberry.com, 2011</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190929061148/https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2009/ap-stylebook-iphone-app-launches-today-a-hybrid-of-print-online-versions/ AP Stylebook iPhone App Launches Today, a Hybrid of Print & Online Versions]. poynter.org/, 2009</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190928043433/https://legacy.apstylebook.com/?do=product&pid=mobile AP Stylebook Mobile]. legacy.apstylebook.com, 2014</ref> however it was later discontinued in 2015 in favor of users simply accessing the ''AP Stylebook'' online edition through their desktop or mobile browsers.<ref name="AP_2015_">[https://web.archive.org/web/20190929062455/https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2015/2015-ap-stylebook-adds-more-than-300-new-or-revised-entries 2015 AP Stylebook adds more than 300 new or revised entries]. ap.org, May 2015</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190928043645/https://apstylebook.helpjuice.com/18959-ap-stylebook-online/can-i-continue-to-use-my-old-stylebook-mobile-app APStylebook.com Help Center topics: Can I continue to use my old Stylebook Mobile app?]. AP Stylebook Help, 2019</ref> In March 2019 AP created an ''Archived AP Stylebooks'' section on its apstylebook.com website where anyone can access previous versions of the ''AP Stylebook'' starting from 1900 "brochure on AP corporate structure" and all the way to 1977 edition.<ref name="poynter_1">[https://web.archive.org/web/20190928224335/https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2019/you-can-now-search-really-old-ap-stylebooks-and-guides-online/ You can now search really old AP Stylebooks and guides online]. poynter.org, 2019</ref>
After Norm Goldstein stepped down as lead editor in 2007, in bibliographical records for all subsequent editions starting from 2008 lead editors' names are usually not explicitly called out and the author is simply referred to as ''Associated Press'' or ''AP Editors''. In 2009 and 2011 the ''Stylebook'' was released as an app called ''AP Stylebook Mobile'' edition for iOS and BlackBerry, respectively,<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-09-29|title=Has your inkwell run dry? The AP Stylebook for BlackBerry gives you a refill &#124; CrackBerry.com|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929061559/https://crackberry.com/has-your-inkwell-run-dry-ap-stylebook-blackberry-gives-you-refill|access-date=2023-02-03|website=web.archive.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-09-29|title=AP Stylebook iPhone App Launches Today, a Hybrid of Print & Online Versions - Poynter|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929061148/https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2009/ap-stylebook-iphone-app-launches-today-a-hybrid-of-print-online-versions/|access-date=2023-02-03|website=web.archive.org}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190928043433/https://legacy.apstylebook.com/?do=product&pid=mobile AP Stylebook Mobile]. legacy.apstylebook.com, 2014</ref> however it was later discontinued in 2015 in favor of users simply accessing the ''AP Stylebook'' online edition through their desktop or mobile browsers.<ref name="AP_2015_">{{Cite web|date=2019-09-29|title=2015 AP Stylebook adds more than 300 new or revised entries|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929062455/https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2015/2015-ap-stylebook-adds-more-than-300-new-or-revised-entries|access-date=2023-02-03|website=web.archive.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-09-28|title=APStylebook — Can I continue to use my old Stylebook Mobile app?|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928043645/https://apstylebook.helpjuice.com/18959-ap-stylebook-online/can-i-continue-to-use-my-old-stylebook-mobile-app|access-date=2023-02-03|website=web.archive.org}}</ref> In March 2019 AP created an ''Archived AP Stylebooks'' section on its apstylebook.com website where anyone can access previous versions of the ''AP Stylebook'' starting from 1900 "brochure on AP corporate structure" and all the way to 1977 edition.<ref name="poynter_1">{{Cite web|date=2019-09-28|title=You can now search really old AP Stylebooks and guides online - Poynter|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928224335/https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2019/you-can-now-search-really-old-ap-stylebooks-and-guides-online/|access-date=2023-02-03|website=web.archive.org}}</ref>


The first Spanish AP stylebook was created in 2012, after requests from the AP Mexico City bureau and others to develop such a stylebook. The bureau at the time was looking for ways to expand into Latin America while bridging the language barrier. In 2013 the AP Spanish Stylebook came into fruition and is now available to everyone.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jean Tenore |first1=Mallary |title=AP Stylebook creates a Spanish version of the Stylebook to address changes in language |url=https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2012/ap-stylebook-creates-a-spanish-language-stylebook-to-address-changes-in-language/ |website=Poynter.org |date=November 12, 2012 |access-date=10 June 2021}}</ref> The Spanish AP stylebook is also referred to as the ''Manual de Estilo''.
The first Spanish AP stylebook was created in 2012, after requests from the AP Mexico City bureau and others to develop such a stylebook. The bureau at the time was looking for ways to expand into Latin America while bridging the language barrier. In 2013 the AP Spanish Stylebook came into fruition and is now available to everyone.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jean Tenore |first1=Mallary |title=AP Stylebook creates a Spanish version of the Stylebook to address changes in language |url=https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2012/ap-stylebook-creates-a-spanish-language-stylebook-to-address-changes-in-language/ |website=Poynter.org |date=November 12, 2012 |access-date=10 June 2021}}</ref> The Spanish AP stylebook is also referred to as the ''Manual de Estilo''.


The most recent print edition is the 2020–2022 ''AP Stylebook'', available spiral-bound directly from AP, and as a [[Bookbinding#Thermally activated binding|perfect-bound]] paperback sold by [[Basic Books]]. Creation of ''AP Stylebook'' has been helmed by lead editor Paula Froke since 2016.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.copyediting.com/guard-changes-on-ap-stylebook-team-of-editors/ |title=Guard Changes on 'AP Stylebook' Team of Editors |access-date=July 19, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160924222700/https://www.copyediting.com/guard-changes-on-ap-stylebook-team-of-editors/ |archive-date=September 24, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190929060021/https://www.ap.org/ap-in-the-news/2017/froke-named-apme-executive-director-and-ap-stylebook-editor Froke named APME executive director and AP Stylebook editor]. ap.org, 2017</ref> In early 2023, the stylebook attracted attention for suggesting that "[[French people|the French]]" could be an offensive term in a tweet promoting [[people-first language]]; there was considerable mockery of the suggestion, and the AP subsequently retracted it.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cohen |first=Roger |date=2023-01-27 |title=The French Want to Remain the French |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/world/europe/ap-stylebook-the-french.html |access-date=2023-01-30 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-01-28 |title=AP deletes ‘the French' tweet and apologises after it is widely mocked |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64436973 |access-date=2023-01-30}}</ref>
The most recent print edition is the 2020–2022 ''AP Stylebook'', available spiral-bound directly from AP, and as a [[Bookbinding#Thermally activated binding|perfect-bound]] paperback sold by [[Basic Books]]. Creation of ''AP Stylebook'' has been helmed by lead editor Paula Froke since 2016.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.copyediting.com/guard-changes-on-ap-stylebook-team-of-editors/ |title=Guard Changes on 'AP Stylebook' Team of Editors |access-date=July 19, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160924222700/https://www.copyediting.com/guard-changes-on-ap-stylebook-team-of-editors/ |archive-date=September 24, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-09-29|title=Froke named APME executive director and AP Stylebook editor|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929060021/https://www.ap.org/ap-in-the-news/2017/froke-named-apme-executive-director-and-ap-stylebook-editor|access-date=2023-02-03|website=web.archive.org}}</ref> In early 2023, the stylebook attracted attention for suggesting that "[[French people|the French]]" could be an offensive term in a tweet promoting [[people-first language]]; there was considerable mockery of the suggestion, and the AP subsequently retracted it.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cohen |first=Roger |date=2023-01-27 |title=The French Want to Remain the French |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/world/europe/ap-stylebook-the-french.html |access-date=2023-01-30 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-01-28 |title=AP deletes ‘the French' tweet and apologises after it is widely mocked |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64436973 |access-date=2023-01-30}}</ref>


==Influence on American English==
==Influence on American English==
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=== Edition number: Spanish edition ===
=== Edition number: Spanish edition ===
Due to the rising influence of the Spanish language worldwide, in November 2012 Associated Press added, in addition to American English, its first ever Spanish edition of its stylebook.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121201053342/http://www.ap.org/content/press-release/2012/ap-launches-its-first-spanish-language-stylebook AP launches its first Spanish-language stylebook]. ap.org, November 9, 2012</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190928040552/https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2012/la-ap-lanza-su-primer-manual-de-estilo-en-espanol La AP lanza su primer Manual de Estilo en español]. ap.org, November 9, 2012 {{in lang|es}}</ref> The Spanish edition is separate from English edition and has a different website, as well as Twitter and Facebook accounts.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190928040152/https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2012/ap-stylebook-creates-a-spanish-language-stylebook-to-address-changes-in-language/ AP Stylebook creates a Spanish version of the AP Stylebook to address changes in language]. poynter.org, December 11, 2012</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190928040221/https://www.ap.org/ap-in-the-news/2012/ap-launches-spanish-stylebook-in-latin-america AP launches Spanish stylebook in Latin America]. ap.org, 2012</ref> Unlike the English edition which currently has both online and print versions, the Spanish edition only has an online edition. The Spanish edition does not have an 'edition number' since it only exists as an online service.
Due to the rising influence of the Spanish language worldwide, in November 2012 Associated Press added, in addition to American English, its first ever Spanish edition of its stylebook.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2012-12-01|title=AP-launches-its-first-Spanish-language-stylebook|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121201053342/http://www.ap.org/content/press-release/2012/ap-launches-its-first-spanish-language-stylebook|access-date=2023-02-03|website=web.archive.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-09-28|title=La AP lanza su primer Manual de Estilo en español|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928040552/https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2012/la-ap-lanza-su-primer-manual-de-estilo-en-espanol|access-date=2023-02-03|website=web.archive.org}}</ref> The Spanish edition is separate from English edition and has a different website, as well as Twitter and Facebook accounts.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-09-28|title=AP Stylebook creates a Spanish version of the Stylebook to address changes in language - Poynter|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928040152/https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2012/ap-stylebook-creates-a-spanish-language-stylebook-to-address-changes-in-language/|access-date=2023-02-03|website=web.archive.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-09-28|title=AP launches Spanish stylebook in Latin America|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928040221/https://www.ap.org/ap-in-the-news/2012/ap-launches-spanish-stylebook-in-latin-america|access-date=2023-02-03|website=web.archive.org}}</ref> Unlike the English edition which currently has both online and print versions, the Spanish edition only has an online edition. The Spanish edition does not have an 'edition number' since it only exists as an online service.


==Revision process==
==Revision process==
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In 2005, dozens of new or revised entries were added, including "[[Sept. 11, 2001|Sept. 11]]", "[[e.g.]]", "[[i.e.]]", "[[FedEx]]" and "[[Midwest region of the United States|Midwest region]]".<ref name="AP_2005"/>
In 2005, dozens of new or revised entries were added, including "[[Sept. 11, 2001|Sept. 11]]", "[[e.g.]]", "[[i.e.]]", "[[FedEx]]" and "[[Midwest region of the United States|Midwest region]]".<ref name="AP_2005"/>


In 2008, about 200 new or revised entries were added, including "[[iPhone]]", "[[anti-virus]]", "[[outsourcing]]", "[[podcast]]", "[[text messaging]]", "[[social networking]]", "[[High-definition television|high-definition]]" and "[[Wikipedia]]".<ref name="AP_2008">[https://web.archive.org/web/20100612184911/http://ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_062608a.html Print edition of 2008 AP Stylebook now on sale]. ap.org, June 2008</ref>
In 2008, about 200 new or revised entries were added, including "[[iPhone]]", "[[anti-virus]]", "[[outsourcing]]", "[[podcast]]", "[[text messaging]]", "[[social networking]]", "[[High-definition television|high-definition]]" and "[[Wikipedia]]".<ref name="AP_2008">{{Cite web|date=2010-06-12|title=pr_062608a.html|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612184911/http://ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_062608a.html|access-date=2023-02-03|website=web.archive.org}}</ref>


In 2009, about 60 new or revised entries were added, including "[[Twitter]]", "[[baba ghanoush]]" and "[[texting]]".<ref name="AP_2009">[https://web.archive.org/web/20090614170449/http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_061109a.html New edition of AP Stylebook adds entries and helpful features]. ap.org, June 2009</ref>
In 2009, about 60 new or revised entries were added, including "[[Twitter]]", "[[baba ghanoush]]" and "[[texting]]".<ref name="AP_2009">{{Cite web|date=2009-06-14|title=pr_061109a.html|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090614170449/http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_061109a.html|access-date=2023-02-03|website=web.archive.org}}</ref>


In 2013, about 90 new or revised entries were added, including "[[Benedictine]]", "[[Grand Marnier]]", "[[Madeleine (cake)|madeleine]]" and "[[upside-down cake]]", "[[wikt:chichi|chichi]]" and "[[wikt:frou-frou|froufrou]]".<ref name="AP_2013"/>
In 2013, about 90 new or revised entries were added, including "[[Benedictine]]", "[[Grand Marnier]]", "[[Madeleine (cake)|madeleine]]" and "[[upside-down cake]]", "[[wikt:chichi|chichi]]" and "[[wikt:frou-frou|froufrou]]".<ref name="AP_2013"/>


In 2019, about 200 new or revised entries were added, including "[[budtender]]", "[[deepfake]]" and "[[cryptocurrency]]".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190928032145/https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2019/health-and-science-chapter-debuts-in-2019-ap-stylebook Health and science chapter debuts in 2019 AP Stylebook]. ap.org, May 2019</ref>
In 2019, about 200 new or revised entries were added, including "[[budtender]]", "[[deepfake]]" and "[[cryptocurrency]]".<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-09-28|title=Health and science chapter debuts in 2019 AP Stylebook|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928032145/https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2019/health-and-science-chapter-debuts-in-2019-ap-stylebook|access-date=2023-02-03|website=web.archive.org}}</ref>


The 2020–2022 edition was released on May 21, 2020. About 90 new or revised technology-related entries were added, including "internet privacy", "digital wallet" / "mobile wallet", "smart devices", and "lidar". A new chapter was added about digital security for journalists.<ref>{{cite web |title=AP Style |url=https://store.stylebooks.com/2020-ap-stylebook-print-edition.html?SID=o1j8tj8ahhbkfnpg665seloon2 |website=Store.Stylebooks.com |publisher=Associated Press |access-date=9 June 2021}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190928032755/https://apstylebook.helpjuice.com/18958-ap-stylebook-print-edition/when-is-the-ap-stylebook-published APStylebook.com Help Center topics: When is the AP Stylebook published?]. AP Stylebook Help, 2019</ref>{{Failed verification|date=August 2021}}
The 2020–2022 edition was released on May 21, 2020. About 90 new or revised technology-related entries were added, including "internet privacy", "digital wallet" / "mobile wallet", "smart devices", and "lidar". A new chapter was added about digital security for journalists.<ref>{{cite web |title=AP Style |url=https://store.stylebooks.com/2020-ap-stylebook-print-edition.html?SID=o1j8tj8ahhbkfnpg665seloon2 |website=Store.Stylebooks.com |publisher=Associated Press |access-date=9 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-09-28|title=APStylebook — When is the AP Stylebook published?|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928032755/https://apstylebook.helpjuice.com/18958-ap-stylebook-print-edition/when-is-the-ap-stylebook-published|access-date=2023-02-03|website=web.archive.org}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=August 2021}}


== Notes ==
== Notes ==

Revision as of 03:42, 3 February 2023

AP Stylebook
AP Stylebook, 2004 edition
Author
  • AP Editors (1909–1952)
  • G. P. Winkler (1953–1970)
  • Howard Angione (1977)
  • Angione & E.A. Powell (1980)
  • An., Pow. & C.W. French (1984)
  • French (1986)
  • French & Norm Goldstein (1988)
  • Goldstein (1992–2007)
  • AP Editors (since 2008)
Original titleThe Associate Press Rules Regulations and General Orders
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish[a]
SeriesUpdated biennially
SubjectStyle guide
GenreJournalism reference
PublisherLorenz Press
Publication date
1909 (1st internal ed.)
1953 (1st public ed.)
1977 (1st public modern ed.)
2020 (latest public modern ed.)
Pages640 (PB)
619 (SB)
ISBN978-1-541647-57-2 (PB)
978-0-917360-69-5 (SB)
Style guides

The Associated Press Stylebook (generally called the AP Stylebook), alternatively titled The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, is a style and usage guide for American English grammar created by American journalists working for or connected with the Associated Press journalism cooperative based in New York City. Although it is sold as a guide for reporters, it has become the leading reference for most forms of public-facing corporate communication over the last half-century.[citation needed] The Stylebook offers a basic reference to American English grammar, punctuation, and principles of reporting, including many definitions and rules for usage as well as styles for capitalization, abbreviation, spelling, and numerals.

The first publicly available edition of the book was published in 1953. The first modern edition was published in August 1977 by Lorenz Press. Afterwards, various paperback editions were published by different publishers including, among others, Turtleback Books, Penguin's Laurel Press, Pearson's Addison-Wesley, and Hachette's Perseus Books and Basic Books. Recent editions are released in several formats, including paperback and flat-lying spiral-bound editions, as well as a digital e-book edition and an online subscription version. Additionally, the AP Stylebook also provides English grammar recommendations through social media, including Twitter,[1] Facebook,[2] Pinterest,[3] and Instagram.[4]

From 1977 to 2005, more than two million copies of the AP Stylebook have been sold worldwide, with that number climbing to 2.5 million by 2011.[5][6] Writers in broadcasting, news, magazine publishing, marketing departments and public relations firms traditionally adopt and apply AP grammar and punctuation styles.

Organization

The AP Stylebook is organized into sections:

Business Guidelines
A reference section for reporters covering business and financial news including general knowledge of accounting, bankruptcy, mergers, and international bureaus. For instance, it includes explanations of five different chapters of bankruptcy.
Sports Guidelines and Style
Includes terminology, statistics, organization rules and guidelines commonly referenced by sports reporters, such as the correct way to spell and use basketball terminology like half-court pass, field goal and goal-tending.
Guide to Punctuation
A specific guide on how to use punctuation in journalistic materials. This section includes rules regarding hyphens, commas, parentheses, and quotations.
Briefing on Media Law
An overview of legal issues and ethical expectations for those working in journalism, including the difference between slander and libel. Slander is spoken; libel is written.
Photo Captions
The simple formula of what to include when writing a photo caption, usually called a cutline in newspapers.
Editing Marks
A key with editing symbols to assist the journalist with the proofreading process.
Digital Security
A guide to protect journalists, their work, sources, online accounts, and avoid online harassment.
Bibliography
This provides second reference materials for information not included in the book. For example, it says to use Webster's New World College Dictionary as a reference after the AP Stylebook for spelling, style, usage and foreign geographic names.

Title

From 1909, when the first company-wide stylebook-like guide was released internally under the title: "The Associate Press Rules Regulations and General Orders", and until 1953, the stylebook was published under different titles including, among others, Instructions for Correspondents of the Associated Press, The Associated Press. Regulations Traffic Department, A Guide for Filing Editors. The Associated Press, A Guide for Foreign Correspondents. The Associated Press, A Guide for Writers. The Associated Press, The AP Copy Book, and AP Writing Handbook.

By the end of WWII, pressures from a growing number of non-journalistic business sectors, already referencing copied or confiscated copies of the guide for years, greatly increased the stylebook's demand. The first publicly available edition of AP Stylebook was published in 1953 under the title "The Associated Press Style Book". Since 1953, the stylebook has been published under different titles, including Writing for The AP; AP Stylebook; and The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual.[7]

Some journalists have referred to The AP Stylebook as the 'journalist bible'.[8]

In 2000, the guide was renamed The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law and the paperback edition has been published under this title since then.[9][10] Some editions, such as the spiral-bound and e-book editions, use the shorter title The Associated Press Stylebook on their covers.

History

The Associated Press organization was first created in 1846. The first company-wide AP "guide" did not cover English grammar. It was more of a brochure with 24 pages of various titles and corporate structures of the Associated Press organization and was first published in 1900 under the title "The Associated Press".

Although a formal English grammar style guide did not exist across the organization through the 1800s, individual bureaus were known to have maintained similar internal style guides as early as the late 1870s. The first corporate-wide style guide, with a complete reference to American English words and grammar, was released in 1909, under the title: "The Associate Press Rules Regulations and General Orders".[b][11][12][13]

By the early 1950s the publication was formalized into the AP Stylebook and became the leading professional English grammar reference by most member and non-member news bureaus throughout the world. Due to growing demand by non-member journalists and writers working in public-facing corporate communications, the AP published their first official "stylebook" for the general public in 1953 under the title Associated Press Style Book; the first publication focused on "where the wire set a specific style".[14][15][16][17] For nearly a quarter century it assumed its reader had a "solid grounding in language and a good reference library" and thus omitted any guidelines in those broader areas.[17] In 1977, prompted by AP Executive News Editor Lou Boccardi's request for "more of a reference work", the organization started expanding the book and in 1977 produced a book that was different in a few fundamental regards.[17] Firstly, The structure was changed and entries were organized in alphabetical order so that users could find what they need in a timely manner.[18] Secondly, in 1977 the book was published for the first time by a 3rd party publisher – Lorenz Press.[19] Thirdly, in 1977, United Press International and AP cooperated to produce stylebooks for each organization based on revisions and guidelines jointly agreed to by editors of both UPI Stylebook (Bobby Ray Miller) and AP Stylebook (Howard Angione).[20][21] In 1982, Eileen Alt Powell, a co-editor of AP Stylebook 1980 edition, stated that:

Howard Angione... at times thought the task he and UPI counterpart Bobby Ray Miller had undertaken resembled the quest of Don Quixote. It was "an impossible dream", Angione said, to find style rules that pleased everyone, especially since even grammarians couldn't agree among themselves.[21]

In 1989, Norm Goldstein became the AP Stylebook lead editor, a job he held until the 2007 edition.[17] After publishing the final edition under his editorship, Goldstein commented on the future of the AP Stylebook's section on name references:

I think the difference... now is that there is more information available on the Internet, and I'm not sure, and at least our executive editor is not sure, how much of a reference book we ought to be anymore. I think some of our historical background material like on previous hurricanes and earthquakes, that kind of encyclopedic material that's so easily available on the Internet now, might be cut back.[17]

After Norm Goldstein stepped down as lead editor in 2007, in bibliographical records for all subsequent editions starting from 2008 lead editors' names are usually not explicitly called out and the author is simply referred to as Associated Press or AP Editors. In 2009 and 2011 the Stylebook was released as an app called AP Stylebook Mobile edition for iOS and BlackBerry, respectively,[22][23][24] however it was later discontinued in 2015 in favor of users simply accessing the AP Stylebook online edition through their desktop or mobile browsers.[25][26] In March 2019 AP created an Archived AP Stylebooks section on its apstylebook.com website where anyone can access previous versions of the AP Stylebook starting from 1900 "brochure on AP corporate structure" and all the way to 1977 edition.[14]

The first Spanish AP stylebook was created in 2012, after requests from the AP Mexico City bureau and others to develop such a stylebook. The bureau at the time was looking for ways to expand into Latin America while bridging the language barrier. In 2013 the AP Spanish Stylebook came into fruition and is now available to everyone.[27] The Spanish AP stylebook is also referred to as the Manual de Estilo.

The most recent print edition is the 2020–2022 AP Stylebook, available spiral-bound directly from AP, and as a perfect-bound paperback sold by Basic Books. Creation of AP Stylebook has been helmed by lead editor Paula Froke since 2016.[28][29] In early 2023, the stylebook attracted attention for suggesting that "the French" could be an offensive term in a tweet promoting people-first language; there was considerable mockery of the suggestion, and the AP subsequently retracted it.[30][31]

Influence on American English

The influence of the AP and similar news service styles has reached beyond the news writing community.[32][33] Many other North American sectors disseminating information to the public began to adopt news styles as early as the late 1800s. Many other sectors now also have developed their own similar style guides and also continue to reference the AP Stylebook for general American grammar, more than any other style guide available.[34][35]

Edition

Edition number: English edition

The first publicly available English edition of the book was released in 1953.[14] However, all editions prior to 1977 are not included in the editions count and the first modern edition is considered to be the August 1977 edition released for the first time by Lorenz Press. The latest, 2020 version, is the 55th edition and can be used until[36] 2022. The Associated Press has reduced the frequency in print publication due to the popularity of the online version of the AP Stylebook. The print version is expected to be available, unless otherwise stated, biennially.[37]

Edition number: Spanish edition

Due to the rising influence of the Spanish language worldwide, in November 2012 Associated Press added, in addition to American English, its first ever Spanish edition of its stylebook.[38][39] The Spanish edition is separate from English edition and has a different website, as well as Twitter and Facebook accounts.[40][41] Unlike the English edition which currently has both online and print versions, the Spanish edition only has an online edition. The Spanish edition does not have an 'edition number' since it only exists as an online service.

Revision process

From 1980 to 1984 the English edition was updated biennially; then from 1985 to 2020, the English edition was updated annually, usually in May, at which time edits and new entries were added to keep the stylebook up to date with technological and cultural changes. As of the end of 2022, no further editions have been published since the 2020 edition.[42]

In 2005, dozens of new or revised entries were added, including "Sept. 11", "e.g.", "i.e.", "FedEx" and "Midwest region".[6]

In 2008, about 200 new or revised entries were added, including "iPhone", "anti-virus", "outsourcing", "podcast", "text messaging", "social networking", "high-definition" and "Wikipedia".[43]

In 2009, about 60 new or revised entries were added, including "Twitter", "baba ghanoush" and "texting".[44]

In 2013, about 90 new or revised entries were added, including "Benedictine", "Grand Marnier", "madeleine" and "upside-down cake", "chichi" and "froufrou".[15]

In 2019, about 200 new or revised entries were added, including "budtender", "deepfake" and "cryptocurrency".[45]

The 2020–2022 edition was released on May 21, 2020. About 90 new or revised technology-related entries were added, including "internet privacy", "digital wallet" / "mobile wallet", "smart devices", and "lidar". A new chapter was added about digital security for journalists.[46][47][failed verification]

Notes

  1. ^ There's also a Spanish online-only edition of AP Stylebook.
  2. ^ The title page has a full title Hand Book and Manual of Resolutions of the Board of Directors/General Orders and Instructions to Employees of The Associated Press.

References

  1. ^ "AP Stylebook (APStylebook) on Twitter". Twitter.com. Retrieved March 21, 2011.
  2. ^ "AP Stylebook". Facebook. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
  3. ^ "AP Stylebook". Pinterest. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
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