University of San Francisco
Name & title: Angie Davis, Editor
Institution & publication: University of San Francisco, USF Magazine
Type of publication: magazine
Readership audience: alumni, faculty/staff, parents of current students, trustees, advisory boards, friends, select corporations and foundations
Number of pages: 48 or 56
Frequency of publication: twice a year
Circulation: 80,000
Color: 4-color
Basic style manual: Chicago Manual, AP Stylebook, institution
Reason for using the manual: Chicago and AP are the most widely used, and with most of our writers/editors coming from newspapers, this is what we prefer
Dictionary: Merriam-Webster
Reason for using dictionary: on my desk forever
Items on our house style sheet not covered in our manual: We have several rules that are specific to USF/universities/Jesuit schools, including such things as Mass not mass, John Smith, S.J., on first reference, Fr. Smith thereafter, university (no cap) on second reference, Department of History/history department, etc. Please see the style guide at: www.usfca.edu/publishingresources/style_guide.html.