Identity Guidelines

Introduction

Welcome to the UTSA Style Guide. The purpose of this style guide is to promote consistency and readability in the many magazines, reports, newsletters, brochures, Web pages and other publications produced by the university. We hope the guide will be a valuable resource to you as you prepare copy for your publication.

We’ve included a lot of information about names and places specific to writing about UTSA and to San Antonio. For more general information on style, punctuation, grammar and usage, we’ve drawn from three reference books: The Associated Press Stylebook; The Chicago Manual of Style, Fifteenth Edition; and Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. The Office of University Communications uses The Associated Press Stylebook as its primary reference on style issues. The Chicago Manual of Style is the second reference.

For this guide, we tried to compile all the points that come up most often in the projects we work on for the university. But it’s very likely that you might have a question we haven’t addressed here. Not sure if you’re capitalizing your supervisor’s title correctly? Do you want more clarification on using freshman versus freshmen? Feel free to call us with any grammar, style, capitalization or usage questions you have, and we’ll be happy to help you track down the answer. UTSA Style Guide PDF Format