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questions not covered below, use the Associated
Press (AP) Stylebook. SDSU has adopted this reference as the
university's official style manual for publications targeting media
and other external and internal audiences. All SDSU communications
professionals should keep an updated copy of the AP Stylebook
on their desks. Faculty or staff writing for scholarly publications,
however, should comply with specified academic style manuals. |
Technical Usage
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- CD-ROM:
hyphenated
and all caps.
- cell phone:
two words.
- database:
one word.
- dot-com:
use a hyphen in this generic term for businesses operating on
the Internet.
- DVD:
all caps.
- e-mail:
hyphenated and lower case.
- home page:
two words; the front or main page of a Web site.
- Internet:
capitalized or "the Net" (but "intranet"
is lower case).
- login, logon,
logoff:
one word, no hyphen, lowercase.
- offline,
online: one word, no hyphen.
- URL:
All caps; an acronym for "uniform resource locator,"
an Internet address. In running text, URLs (and e-mails) may be
enclosed in angle brackets to avoid confusion with other punctuation:
"The university's Web site is <www.sdsu.edu>, and the
webmaster’s e-mail address is <webmaster@sdsu.edu>."
If a Web site does not use a conventional "www" address,
the "http://" should be included in references to the
address: <http://advancement.sdsu.edu>.
- World Wide
Web: Capitalize; a global system of linking documents, images,
sounds and other files across the Internet. Related terms:
- "the
Web," "Web site" and "Web page" are
two words; capitalize "Web."
- "webcam,"
"webcast" and "webmaster" are one word and
lower case.
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