''The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage: The Official Style Guide Used by the Writers and Editors of the World's Most Authoritative Newspaper'' is a

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first published in 1950 by editors at the newspaper and revised in 1974, 1999, and 2002 by

Allan M. Siegal Allan Marshall Siegal (May 1, 1940 – September 21, 2022) was an American newspaper editor and journalist who worked at ''The New York Times'' for 45 years. In 1987, he was named an assistant managing editor, and in 2003, he became the ''Times ...

and

William G. Connolly William G. Connolly, is a co-author of '' The New York Times style guide'' and a member of the executive committee of the American Copy Editors Society. Education Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Connolly attended St. Paul's School. He graduate ...

. According to the ''Times'' Deputy News Editor Philip B. Corbett (in charge of revising the manual) in 2007, the newspaper maintains an updated,

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version of the manual that is used by ''NYT'' staff, but this online version is not available to the general public. An

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version of this fifth edition was issued in February 2015, and it was released in paperback form in September 2015 (Three Rivers Press, ). ''The New York Times Manual'' has various differences from the more influential '' Associated Press Stylebook''. As some examples, the ''NYT Manual'': *Uses ''s'' for possessives even for a word/name ending in ''s'' *Gives rationales for many practices for which ''AP'' simply states a rule *Is strictly alphabetical and thus self-indexed, while ''AP'' has separate sections for sports and weather entries, and combines many entries under such terms as "weapons" *Has some whimsical entries – such as one for how to spell ''shh'' – in contrast to ''AP''s drier, more utilitarian format (though the ''NYT'' book is not alone in its tone among journalistic style guides) *Requires that the surnames of subjects be prefixed with a courtesy title (such as Dr., Mr., Ms., or Mrs.). (However, since about 2015, courtesy titles have not been used in sports pages, pop culture, and fine arts)

References

1999 non-fiction books Manual of Style and Usage Style guides for American English Journalism standards

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