The Metropolitan Style Sheet

• Headlines 28 pt bold ITC Officina Sans Book centered
• Sub headlines 16 pt bold ITC Officina Sans Book centered
• Body copy 10 pt Galliard justified
• Continued to 10 pt Galliard right justified
• Continued from 12 pt bold ITC Officina Sans Book left justified
• Captions 9 pt Book Antiqua right justified
• Photo credits 8 pt Book Antiqua right justified
• Quote of the month Kaufmann
• The Metropolitan logo Trajan
• "Metropolitan State University Student Newspaper" Helvetica 12 pt loose tracking
• "Published monthly in..." 9 pt Times New Roman
• Articles are in paragraph format with a 3 space indent.
• Articles are justified on both sides.
• Metropolitan State University is always written out.
• St. Paul, Minn.

Editing Associate Press (A.P.) style:

• Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition: As a rule, use first spelling listed.
• Résumé
• Emdash, connects continuing sentences/thoughts ("He went to the store—at least that’s what he told us.")
• Endash connects times of day (12:30 p.m.–1:00 p.m.)
• a.m./p.m. Use noon or midnight instead of 12 a.m. or 12 p.m.
• email (lowercase)
• Email addresses in italics, unless surrounding sentence is in italics, then it is written out.
• Web site (capped W)
• Web (capped W)
• Internet (capped I)
• Net (capped N)
• intranet (lowercase i)
• JPEG (all uppercase)
• PDF (all uppercase)
• Laserdisc, but hard disk (or disk)
• $2,000 (not $2000)
• Percent (not %)
• President Susan A. Cole, but Susan A. Cole, president
• Lowercase fields of study (psychology, nursing, etc.)
• master of arts, bachelor’s degree, graduate program (always lower case)
• Academic degrees are capped, no spaces: A.A., B.A., B.S., M.B.A, Ph.D.
• United States, written out in first reference, unless used as an adjective (U.S. Post Office)
• St. Paul as opposed to Saint Paul, unless it is written out as part of a name (The Saint Paul Foundation)
• g.p.a. is acceptable for grade point average
• "That is," "and so on," "for example," and "such as" instead of "i.e." "etc." "e.g."
• Acronyms may be used after an initial spelled-out reference: College of Arts and Sciences (CAS); Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU); and Student Executive Council (SEC); University of Minnesota (U of M).
• Years: 1960s can be abbreviated to ’60s, not 60’s
• Use quotation marks for titles of articles, songs, chapters in books, movies and radio and television programs.
• Italics for titles of books, magazines, newspapers and plays.
• Colons are always followed by two spaces.
• Neither hyphens (-) nor dashes (—) require spaces around them.
• Numbers one through nine are spelled out in AP style; numbers 10 and up are in numeral form.
• Use figures without letters in dates: April 1, not April 1st.
• Campus class and event locations, cap first letter: Minneapolis Campus; St. Paul and Midway Campuses; New Main; Room L104.
• Substitute gender-neutral all-inclusive phrasing: his or her, one’s education, (not "my" or "your" education).
• Fractions: three-fourths, and one-half. Not ¾ and ½.
• Money: $10, not $10.00. 60 cents.