Please respect the following style and spelling rules when you submit a story to the Atlantic Sentinel.

Spelling

• Use the American English spelling.
• Spell out numbers up to 21 as well as large round numbers. For example: More than sixty million Americans voted for Mitt Romney in 2012, giving him 206 electoral votes.
• For percentages, use numerals and spell out “percent.” Omit the 0 if less. For example: The Italian economy contracted .3 percent.

Titles

• Capitalize all words in the title (but not subtitle) except: and, but, for, or, articles and prepositions.
• Italicize the titles of publications, including albums, books, films, magazines and newspapers. For example: The New York Times.
• Titles of articles, songs and TV episodes take quotation marks.
• Also italicize foreign words except geographical entities and names.

Punctuation

• Avoid hyphens if possible. For example: policymaker, not policy-maker.
• Em dashes, which are formed by typing two hyphens, take additional whitespace on either side.
• Do not use the serial (or Oxford) comma before the conjunction in a series. For example: Germany, France and Italy are the three largest economies in the eurozone.
• Abbreviations and acronyms usually do not require periods. For example: CEO.