LibGuides: Public Relations: Write &amp; Cite

Writing - Associated Press (AP) Style

Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law by Norm Goldstein, Editor
Call Number: PCL Stacks PN 4783 A83

Publication Date: 2017
The Public Relations Writer's Handbook by Whitney Lehmann
Call Number: ebook

Publication Date: 2019

AP Style - Purdue Writing Lab
This Web page is intended to provide an introduction to AP style and a summary of some AP style rules.
AP Stylebook Blog
The AP Stylebook blog addresses updates to the stylebook. You can use the search bar to look for specific information.
Moody Writing Center
The Moody Writing Center has an expert consultant in Advertising and Public Relations.
University Writing Center
The University Writing Center serves undergraduate and graduate students. Make an appointment for a consultation.

Style Guides

Conscious Style Guide
The Conscious Style Guide is a website devoted to conscious language.
Disability Language Style Guide
Writing about disability is complicated and requires sensitivity. If you are in doubt about how to refer to a person, ask the person. If you can’t ask the person, don’t avoid writing about disability. Use this guide.
Diversity Style Guide
The Diversity Style Guide is a resource to help journalists and other media professionals cover a complex, multicultural world with accuracy, authority and sensitivity.
Gender Spectrum Guide to the Language of Gender
The power of language to shape our perceptions of other people is immense. Precise use of terms in regards to gender can have a significant impact on demystifying many of the misperceptions associated with gender.
GLAAD Media Reference Guide
This Guide is intended to be used by journalists reporting for mainstream media outlets and media creators who want to tell the stories of LGBTQ people fairly and accurately.
NAHJ Cultural Competence Handbook
The Cultural Competence Handbook, from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, is intended to complement other stylebooks, and ensure fair, accurate and inclusive coverage of the Latino community.
NABJ Style Guide
NABJ Style is offered as a style book for newsrooms and others on terms and language usage of special interest or relevance to the National Association of Black journalists and the Black community.
Journalism Resource Guide on Mental Health
The Carter Center Mental Health Program and the Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism are proud to provide this guide for reporting on behavioral health issues.
NLGJA Stylebook on LGBTQ+ Terminology
The Stylebook on LGBTQ+ Terminology is intended to complement the prose stylebooks of individual publications, as well as The Associated Press Stylebook, the leading stylebook in U.S. newsrooms, which also has extensive guidance on language around gender, sex and sexual orientation.
Photographer's Guide to Inclusive Photography
This guide is authored by the Authority Collective, a group of womxn, non-binary and gender expansive people of color reclaiming our authority in lens-based visual media.
Quoting Immigrants: A Media Toolkit for Anonymous Sources
Define American has created this toolkit to inform journalists on how best to quote sources anonymously across all media: print, digital, television, audio and documentary journalism. (2022)
Race Reporting Guide
The purpose of this race reporting guide is to serve as an accessible and concise tool for journalists and thought leaders in the United States talking about race, racism, and racial justice in the media.
Radical Copyeditor's Style Guide for Writing about Transgender People
This is a style guide for writing about transgendered people. Radical copyediting isn’t about absolutes; it’s about context and care.
Religion Stylebook
The Religion Stylebook is an easy-to-use, authoritative guide created for journalists who report on religion in the mainstream media. This is a service of Religion Newswriters Foundation, the nonprofit arm of Religion Newswriters Association.
Reporting on Suicide Prevention
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) pledges to cover suicide-related deaths through safe reporting practices to protect those who are most vulnerable, respect surviving families, and save lives.
Trans Journalists Association Style Guide
The Trans Journalists Association’s Stylebook and Coverage Guide is a tool reporters, editors, and other journalists can use to improve news coverage of trans people and the stories that affect them.
Trauma-Informed Reporting on MMIWG
War on Indigenous Women: A Short Guide for Journalists Reporting on MMIWG shares findings from a panel discussion on "Crimes of Power: Reporting on Femicide."
Tribal Nations Media Guide
The NAJA Tribal Nations Media Guide encourages reporters and editors to learn about the complexities of Indigenous nations and their varied communities.

Citation Management Tools

There are a variety of citation management tools to support students and scholars in collecting, organizing and citing literature. UT Librarians often recommend Zotero to students because it is free and portable, but there are other tools. See this Research Guide for more information.

Citation Management Software Comparison Charts

EndNote (Basic is free from Web of Science/Clarivate)

EndNote comes in different versions: EndNote (license desktop), EndNote Basic and EndNote Online, click here to learn more.

Mendeley (free from Elsevier)

Mendeley.com - Download the free software to organize, annotate citations and pdfs
Mendeley YouTube Channel - training videos

Zotero (free Open source)

Zotero.org - Start here to download both the standalone software and a browser plugin
Zotero's Quick Start Guide
Zotero Introduction - video from UT Library
Zotero Forums - Zotero user communities have answers to technical questions