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The Associated Press Stylebook states that in contexts other than mailing addresses, the traditional state abbreviations should be used. [16] However, the Chicago Manual of Style now recommends use of the uppercase two-letter abbreviations, with the traditional forms as an option. [17]
The FIPS state alpha code for each U.S. states and the District of Columbia are identical to the postal abbreviations by the United States Postal Service. From September 3, 1987, the same was true of the alpha code for each of the outlying areas, with the exception of U.S. Minor Outlying Islands (UM) as the USPS routes mail for these islands ...
The title of this article is "List of U.S. state abbreviations" but it mixes up abbreviations, codes, and symbols without defining the differences. It does say in places there are postal codes and codes from other places, and that there are abbreviations from the AP Stylebook.
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.
This list of style guide abbreviations provides the meanings of the abbreviations that are commonly used as short ways to refer to major style guides. They are used especially by editors communicating with other editors in manuscript queries, proof queries, marginalia , emails, message boards , and so on.
The Associated Press Stylebook Basic Books ISBN 9780917360633. The BuzzFeed Style Guide: by Emmy Favilla and Megan Paolone. [10] The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage. By Allan M. Siegal and William G. Connolly. The Wall Street Journal Guide to Business Style and Usage, by Ronald J. Alsop and the Staff of the Wall Street Journal.
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
List of U. S. postal abbreviations and List of U.S. states by traditional abbreviation should be merged. The two lists deal with basically the same thing, abbreviations. Neither list is particularly long, and the postal abbrs. could easily be merged with the table on the tradtional abbrs. article.