The intent of the Kentucky State University Editorial Style Guide is to serve as an effective resource for communicators across the campus community to establish consistency in editorial style for websites, print publications, social media and more. Our foremost goals are clarity, consistency and tone, ensuring we speak in one voice.
Generally speaking, these style guidelines are written for use in narrative copy — complete sentences and paragraphs as you'd employ in a news story, annual report or descriptive web copy. For narrative copy, our starting point is the Associated Press Stylebook. Unless we establish Kentucky State style to the contrary, AP style will always be correct. Because academic communities pose style questions not addressed by the Associated Press, we use the Chicago Manual of Style as a secondary guide and Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary.