When you're writing or typing and begin to list items in consecutive order, do you add a comma prior to the conjunction before the final item? Or not? The inclusion of that final comma is a great ...

Vampire Weekend had a brief but glorious reign as the world’s most annoying band. When the Ivy League ... controversies – see early single “Oxford Comma” – even as they cribbed ...

An Oxford, or serial, comma is the last comma in a list; it goes before the word "and." Technically, it's grammatically optional in American English. However, depending on the list you are writing ...

[No comma; and encouraging his band members' individuality is not a sentence.] Note: AAJ does not use serial ("Oxford") commas before the last and or or in a list (as shown in this section's title).