malls / retail centers

• North Star Mall 
• Rolling Oaks Mall 
• Wonderland of the Americas (formerly Crossroads Mall) 
• Ingram Park Mall 
• South Park Mall 
• Shops at Rivercenter
• Alamo Quarry Market
• The Shops at La Cantera

Marriott Riverwalk

Mexican

citizen from Mexico

Mexican American

midterm

military installations

• Fort Sam Houston (Army post)
• Lackland AFB (base)
• Randolph AFB (base)

minor

Lowercase; see  degrees

money

Delete excess numerals when you have a round dollar amount. Use $ in front of the numeric value and avoid using the word dollars.

$10
$423.75
She won $2,500.

Use figures with million and billion, except in nonspecific references.

The building cost $3.5 million.

BUT

I’d like to win a billion dollars.

EXCEPTION: In graphs or charts, you may use decimals and zeros.

months

Capitalize and fully spell out the names of months in all cases to enhance readability.

When a phrase lists only a month and year, do not separate the year with commas. When a phrase refers to a month, day and year, set off the year with commas.

He was born Saturday, August 11, 2007, at Methodist Hospital.

The change went into effect in July 2020.

• February 1, 1996
• February 1996

Monuments, Monument Lights

When discussing the two UTSA structures at the entrance to Main Campus from John Peace Boulevard, use a plural construction:

Monuments
UTSA Monuments

When referring to the lighting scheme tradition created in 2015, singularize monument:

Monument Lights
Lights at the Monument

Also acceptable to differentiate from other monuments:

Monument Lights at John Peace Boulevard
Lights at the Monument at John Peace Boulevard

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