AN follows the Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law; refer to The Chicago Manual of Style for issues not covered here or by AP.

Abbreviations
Anthropology News = AN (NOT preceded by “the”)
American Anthropological Association = AAA
AAA Section names in articles: “Full name (acronym)” on first reference, acronym only thereafter (see below for rules in Section News columns)
University = U (when used as a proper noun: U of Virginia)
College= C (also when used as a proper noun: C of William & Mary)
United States = US (whether used as adj or noun)
United Nations = UN
National Science Foundation = NSF
Other common government agencies: “Full name (acronym)” on first reference, acronym only thereafter
Junior = Jr (NOT preceded by comma)
In address lines:
Office = o  (for a telephone number in an address line)
Home = h
“fax” always in lower case
Telephone = tel
Street = St
Drive = Dr
Institute = Inst
Parkway = Pkwy
Highway=Hwy
Suite= Suite
Apartment= Apt or #
Extension = ext
Incorporated = Inc; Company = Co; Limited = Ltd (as part of proper company name)
Months abbreviated to first three letters in all text (except June and July)
Percent =  %
Centimeter = cm; meter=m; kilometer=km; kilogram=kg (BUT: mile, inch, foot) 

Professional affiliations
In text: in parentheses following individual’s name
In bylines: on line following author’s name
Use institution’s preferred name format when location is part of name (BUT: abbreviate U of California as UC, California State U as Cal State U and University of North Carolina as UNC)

examples: UC, Santa Cruz; UC, Berkeley; UCLA; U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; UNC at Chapel Hill; U of Texas at Austin; Washington U in St Louis—refer to institution’s website for proper format 

Addresses
Format:  Street address; telephone number; fax number; email; website. (note punctuation)
All telephone and fax numbers should be identified as either “tel” or “fax”
Email addresses NOT separated by < >, nor prefaced by “email”
Website addresses also listed as part of text, NOT separated by parentheses or  < >, nor prefaced by “website,” or  “http://” (exception: use “http://” when the address does not include “www”)

example: AAA, 2200 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA 22201; tel 703/528-1902; fax 703/528-3546; members@aaanet.org; www.aaanet.org.

Format hyperlinks and email addresses as regular text before submitting copy
States: when listed as City, State, use two-letter postal abbreviation; when state used alone, spell out 

Numbers
1-9 spelled out in text; 10 and above use numbers only
Use numbers for proper names: 20th century, 19th century (BUT: spell out for adjectives, e.g., thirteenth time
Dates: 1930s (NO apostrophe)
Ages: “He was in his mid-thirties” (BUT: “He was a 35-year-old ethnographer.”) 

Dates
Month, day, year 

Photographs
Mail or email to: Stacy Lathrop, AN Managing Editor, AAA, 2200 Wilson Blvd, Suite 600, Arlington, VA 22201; slathrop@aaanet.org. You may submit photographs in print or slide format, and AN will scan them. However, digital files are preferable and should be supplied in TIFF, EPS or Photoshop format with print-quality resolution (300 to 600 dpi). 

Punctuation
No final comma in series of three or more:  “red, white and blue cars”; “red, white, blue and green cars” (BUT: retain final comma if one or more entry in the series is compound:  “red and white cars, blue motorcylces, and green bicycles”)
Periods: at end of all address lines (including email and Internet addresses)
Numbering: single parenthesis only, e.g.,  “1)”
Italics:  NOT uppercase for emphasis (e.g., He was very angry.)
Quotation marks: Avoid overuse. May be used the first time in a text when indicating author’s opinion about a term, thereafter no quotes. E.g., “race” 

References
Publication acronyms italicized (e.g., AN, AA)
Book/magazine titles in italics
Film titles in quotes
TV program titles in quotes
Page numbers: p and pp
Use least number of digits when listing suite of pages, e.g.  108-11
Abbreviated References
Book Title (publication year, pp )
“Article Title,” Book or magazine (month, year OR volume, number, pp )
References to AN articles: (Month Year AN, p  )—(Apr 1999 AN, p 10) 

Section Columns
Contributing editors’ contact information in italics at end of each column
Subheads no longer than a single printed line
Contributing editor’s parenthetical remarks:  bracketed [ ], NOT italicized
Sections referred to in their own Section News columns by acronym only; by “Full name (acroynm)” on first reference, then acronym only in a different Section’s column
When acronym is not used, refer to group as a “Section,” NOT Society, Council, Division 

Spelling
adviser
bylaws
archaeology (BUT: Archeology Division when referring to the AAA Section)
email
fax
fieldwork
Internet
Neanderthal
website
Web page
worldview
worldwide
[Year] AAA Annual Meeting (Include applicable year; NOT plural when referring to a singular event)

Professional Titles
Only capitalize when in front of name (“AAA President Don Brenneis”; “Don Brenneis, president of the AAA”) 

Various Styles
NO “etc”
NO “and/or” (use one or the other)
Titles: NO Dr, Mr, Mrs, Ms, Professor
NO “Professor” when referring to an individual (BUT: use Reverend, The Honorable)
chair (NOT chairman)
Avoid “page/s” (choose one or the other)
NO “he/she”; avoid “he and she”
African American, Latin American, European American (but Afro-American, Euro-American)
black, white (when referring to US ethnic groups, although African American and European American are preferred)

Interview Format:
Bold For Names: Roman for text.
Bold Initials after first use of full names

End of Article Marker :
Custom dingbat

Aka or nicknames:

Ian “Sandy” Thomas
Maiden names in parentheses, e.g. Joan (King) Smith

Bio Format at end of articles:

Bold author’s name
Text in italics
max 50 words
Abbreviations apply

Subheads:

 A.  Bold Roman
 B.  Bold Italic
 C.  Plain Italic, run into text

Names Bolded:
ONLY in Media Monitor, Policy Monitor, Grant Recipients and Bios

Foreign words:
Italicize first time only (with English translation in parens if necessary), NO quotes

Editorial Comments:
AN Editor’s: Italicized with “—Ed.” E.g.,  Because I said so. –Ed.
 Contributing Editor’s: [bracketed], NOT italicized. NO “Ed.”