The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage : The Official Style Guide Used by the Writers and Editors of the World's Most Authoritative Newspaper is a style guide (copyright 1999) by Allan M. Siegal and William G. Connolly. The revised and expanded paperback edition is copyright 2002.

Although it was written for The New York Times journalists, it has also been published for use by others.^[1] Much of the information is specific to neither The Times nor New York.

Some differences from the Associated Press style book are:

• The Times' manual gives rationale for many practices that the AP stylebook does not.
• The Times' guide is self-indexed; the AP's book has separate sections for sports and weather entries, and it combines many entries under such terms as "weapons" and "weather".
• The Times' book has some whimsical entries, such as one for how to spell "shh".
• The Times' book requires that the surnames of subjects (sports-related columns are probably the most notable exceptions) be prefixed with a title (such as Dr., Mr., Ms. or Mrs.).

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