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King County Editorial Style Manual

How to Use the Online Style Manual

This online manual is in alphabetical order. Click on the letter that begins the word or term you have a question about, and you will go to the appropriate page:

Broad topics--listing hyperlinked cross-references--include abbreviations and acronyms | capitalization | Internet | myths of writing | numbers | punctuation | spelling. Under capitalization, you'll find guidelines specific to King County, including council committees, facilities, job titles, organizational terms, Metropolitan King County Council, and programs, projects and plans.

See a few exceptions or variations for these standards under correspondence. Motions and ordinances of the King County Council also follow some differing style guidelines.

Searching the online manual. You can search the manual in two ways:

• Within a style manual page, you can search for particular words or terms using your Web browser's Find function (under Edit); pages are organized A, B, C, D, E through F, G through H, I through K, L through M, N through O, P, Q through R, S, T through U and V through Z. Many terms are cross-referenced and hyperlinked. Click on the highlighted text to view cross-referenced terms.
• On King County Internet pages, press the Search button in the King County banner. Type in the word(s) or term(s) you're looking for. The results will list county Web pages that contain the word or term you typed. Here's a direct link to the county's Internet Search Engine. Because the style manual is an Internet site, searches for style manual terms do not work on county intranet (internal) pages.

What's New--Significant new, updated and improved entries in the King County Editorial Style Manual.

Top 20 Tips--Excerpts to answer some of the most frequently asked questions about the King County Editorial Style Manual (in Microsoft Word, DOC)

King County Editorial Style Guide (DOC, 416KB)--A summary of key entries in the county's online Editorial Style Manual. If you need a printed version of the manual, download this condensed style guide. Except for this Word document, there is no print version of the whole style manual. Updated Feb. 6, 2007.

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