Courtesy of Kristy Valenti, lead copyeditor for Destroy All Movies!!! The Complete Guide to Punks on Film, some highlights of the book's editorial style guide:
Punctuation, etc.
video game titles in quotation marks
Spelling
afterschool special
arthouse
badass
blond for both sexes, unless is a noun for a female (the blonde kicked the monster, she has a blond mohawk, his liberty spikes are blond).
blow-dried
boombox
buzzcut
chrissakes not christ's sakes
’dos
drug runner but gunrunner
eyeshadow
facepaint, facepainted
"fairytale"
g-string
machine guns (but machine-gunning when verb)
RoboCop
shitstorm (1 word, no hyphen)
wack (as in slang, not to hit)
