Sleep and shut down shortcuts

Key Combination Use
Command-Control-power button Force your Mac to restart
Control-Media Eject Show restart/sleep/shutdown dialog
Command-Option-Media Eject

(Command-Option-Power for Macbooks lacking the Media Eject key)

Put the computer to sleep
Command-Control-Media Eject Quit all applications (after giving you a chance to save changes to open documents), then restart the computer
Command-Option-Control-Media Eject

(Function-Control-Option-Power for Macbooks lacking the Media Eject key)

Quit all applications (after giving you a chance to save changes to open documents), then shut down the computer
Shift-Control-Media Eject

(Shift-Control-Power for Macbooks lacking the Media Eject key)

Put all displays to sleep

Sources: Apple web site and 29 Jan 2013 telephone conversation with Apple Support