AP Style

We (mostly) follow AP Style for all our written content. Here are a few important rules to note:

• AP Style doesn’t use the Oxford comma, so neither do we. This is such a common question, it has its own section.
• State abbre­vi­a­tions differ from postal service abbre­vi­a­tions. See how to format addresses correctly here.
• Write out numbers one through nine, and use numerals for 10 or higher. Refer to this section for more info.
• Dates should be formatted ​“day, month, year” if the audience is inter­na­tion­al, or ​“month, day, year” if you’ll only have U.S. readers. Either way, don’t include ​“st”, ​“nd”, ​“rd” or ​“th”. Visit this page for more date details.

We break with AP Style in a few notable areas:

• Use ​“okay” instead of ​“OK.” (And please never use ​“ok” or ​“Ok.”)
• Use en dashes ( – ) for numerical ranges, not a hyphen.
• When writing a title or headline, follow the Chicago Manual of Style instead of AP. The key differences are outlined in our cap­i­tal­iza­tion section.

More questions? Just Google your conundrum with ​“AP Style,” and the internet will provide. If not, get in touch with your friendly neigh­bor­hood content folks via #writing-at-hudl and we’ll do our best to sort it out.