Editorial Style Guide

A

Example of A Listing

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B

Buildings

The primary campus buildings opened in 1971 with various other structures added over time
for a current total of 17 buildings now on campus:

Main Building
The Wild Beast and The S. Mark Taper Foundation Courtyard
Generator Building
Chouinard Dormitory
Ahmanson Dormitory
C-Annex Studios
John Baldessari Building/Studios and classroom (named for a founding instructor
in the School of Art)
Broad Studios (named for donors Edythe and Eli Broad)
Butler Building 1
Butler Building 2
Butler Building 3
Butler Building 4
Butler Building 5/Studios/Art School
Butler Building 6/Studios/Art School

C

Campus

Mailing Address

California Institute of the Arts
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, CA 91355

Location

The campus is located on 60 acres of rolling hills on the outskirts of Los Angeles
in Valencia, Calif.

History

California Institute of the Arts was established in 1961 by the merger of the Los Angeles
Conservatory of Music with the Chouinard Art Institute. In 1969 construction began on
the Valencia campus.

D

Example of D Listing

Dates

Do not use an apostrophe when referring to decades:

1920s, 1930s, 1940s
films of the 1940s

Use an apostrophe if indicating the decade’s possession:

the 1940s’ best films

Use an apostrophe for two-digit decades:

’20s, ’30s, ’40s

Spell out the days of the week, do not use “th” or “nd” with numbers.

June 13, 2003
Tuesday, March 2
When a month is used with a specific date, abbreviate Jan., Feb., Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov. and Dec. (Jan. 1, 2019). Spell out when using months alone or with a year alone: (January 2019).

E

Example of E Listing

F

Examples of F Article

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Times

Time: 3 p.m. (lowercase, with periods is preferred for print); 3 pm (lowercase, without
periods is preferred for the web).