Identity Guidelines

Editorial Style Guide

Y

year-end

yearlong
One word when used as an adjective:

The yearlong project begins in September.

year-round

years
Use figures without commas. Use commas only with a month and day. Use an s without an apostrophe to indicate spans of decades or centuries. Years are the exception to the rule in numerals that a figure is not used to start a sentence. See also dates.

Dec. 18, 1994
the 1980s
1964 was a turbulent year.
UTSA was founded in 1969 by the Texas Legislature.

yesterday
Use only in direct quotations and in phrases that do not refer to a specific day. Use the day of the week or date in other cases.

Yesterday we were young.
Classes began Aug. 22.
Classes will begin Tuesday.