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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_typographique" title="Code typographique – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Code typographique" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual_de_estilo" title="Manual de estilo – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Manual de estilo" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8A%A4%ED%83%80%EC%9D%BC_%EA%B0%80%EC%9D%B4%EB%93%9C" title="스타일 가이드 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="스타일 가이드" data-language-autonym="한국어" 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href="/wiki/Bluebook" title="Bluebook">The Bluebook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Business_Style_Handbook" title="The Business Style Handbook">The Business Style Handbook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/California_Style_Manual" title="California Style Manual">California Style Manual</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Cambridge_Guide_to_English_Usage" title="The Cambridge Guide to English Usage">The Cambridge Guide to English Usage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Chicago_Manual_of_Style" title="The Chicago Manual of Style">The Chicago Manual of Style</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Citing_Medicine" title="Citing Medicine">Citing Medicine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style" title="The Elements of Style">The Elements of Style</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Elements_of_Typographic_Style" title="The Elements of Typographic Style">The Elements of Typographic Style</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Dictionary_of_Modern_English_Usage" title="A Dictionary of Modern English Usage">Fowler's Modern English Usage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garner%27s_Modern_English_Usage" title="Garner's Modern English Usage">Garner's Modern English Usage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IEEE_style" title="IEEE style">IEEE style</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ISO_690" title="ISO 690">ISO 690</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MHRA_Style_Guide" title="MHRA Style Guide">MHRA Style Guide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Manual_of_Style" title="Microsoft Manual of Style">Microsoft Manual of Style</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MLA_Handbook" title="MLA Handbook">MLA Handbook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Manual_of_Style_and_Usage" title="The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage">The New York Times Manual</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hart%27s_Rules" title="Hart's Rules">The Oxford Guide to Style/New Hart's Rules</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxford_Standard_for_Citation_of_Legal_Authorities" title="Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities">Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Council_of_Science_Editors" title="Council of Science Editors">Scientific Style and Format (CSE style)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Manual_for_Writers_of_Research_Papers,_Theses,_and_Dissertations" title="A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations">Turabian: A Manual for Writers</a></li></ul> </div> <ul><li><hr /></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_style_guide_abbreviations" title="List of style guide abbreviations">List of style guide abbreviations</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar 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A short style guide, typically ranging from several to several dozen pages, is often called a <b>style sheet</b>. The standards documented in a style guide are applicable for either general use, or prescribed use in an individual publication, particular organization, or specific field. </p><p>A style guide establishes standard style requirements to improve <a href="/wiki/Communication" title="Communication">communication</a> by ensuring consistency within and across documents. They may require certain <a href="/wiki/Best_practice" title="Best practice">best practices</a> in <a href="/wiki/Writing_style" title="Writing style">writing style</a>, <a href="/wiki/Usage_(language)" title="Usage (language)">usage</a>, <a href="/wiki/Composition_(language)" title="Composition (language)">language composition</a>, <a href="/wiki/Composition_(visual_arts)" title="Composition (visual arts)">visual composition</a>, <a href="/wiki/Orthography" title="Orthography">orthography</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Typography" title="Typography">typography</a> by setting standards of usage in areas such as <a href="/wiki/Punctuation" title="Punctuation">punctuation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Capitalization" title="Capitalization">capitalization</a>, <a href="/wiki/Citation#Styles" title="Citation">citing sources</a>, formatting of numbers and dates, <a href="/wiki/Table_(information)" title="Table (information)">table</a> appearance and other areas. For <a href="/wiki/Academic_publishing" title="Academic publishing">academic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Technical_communication" title="Technical communication">technical</a> documents, a guide may also enforce the best practice in <a href="/wiki/Ethics" title="Ethics">ethics</a> (such as <a href="/wiki/Author" title="Author">authorship</a>, <a href="/wiki/Research_ethics" title="Research ethics">research ethics</a>, and disclosure) and compliance (<a href="/wiki/Technical_standard" title="Technical standard">technical</a> and <a href="/wiki/Regulatory_compliance" title="Regulatory compliance">regulatory</a>). For translations, a style guide may even be used to enforce consistent grammar, tones, and localization decisions such as <a href="/wiki/Unit_of_measurement" title="Unit of measurement">units of measure</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Style guides may be categorized into three types: <b>comprehensive style</b> for general use; <b>discipline style</b> for specialized use, which is often specific to <a href="/wiki/Academic_discipline" title="Academic discipline">academic disciplines</a>, <a href="/wiki/Medical_publishing" class="mw-redirect" title="Medical publishing">medicine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Journalism" title="Journalism">journalism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Legal_publication" class="mw-redirect" title="Legal publication">law</a>, <a href="/wiki/Government_Publishing_Office" class="mw-redirect" title="Government Publishing Office">government</a>, business, and other industries; and <b>house</b> or <b>corporate style</b>, created and used by a particular publisher or organization.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Varieties">Varieties</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Style_guide&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Varieties"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Style_guide" title="Special:EditPage/Style guide">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.<br /><small><span class="plainlinks"><i>Find sources:</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?as_eq=wikipedia&q=%22Style+guide%22">"Style guide"</a> – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=%22Style+guide%22+-wikipedia&tbs=ar:1">news</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22Style+guide%22&tbs=bkt:s&tbm=bks">newspapers</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22Style+guide%22+-wikipedia">books</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Style+guide%22">scholar</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22Style+guide%22&acc=on&wc=on">JSTOR</a></span></small></span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">January 2023</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Style guides vary widely in scope and size. Writers working in large industries or professional sectors may reference a specific style guide, written for usage in specialized documents within their fields. For the most part, these guides are relevant and useful for peer-to-peer specialist documentation or to help writers working in specific industries or sectors communicate highly technical information in scholarly articles or industry <a href="/wiki/White_paper" title="White paper">white papers</a>. </p><p>Professional style guides of different countries can be referenced for authoritative advice on their respective language(s), such as the United Kingdom's <i><a href="/wiki/New_Oxford_Style_Manual" class="mw-redirect" title="New Oxford Style Manual">New Oxford Style Manual</a></i> from <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>; and the United States' <i><a href="/wiki/The_Chicago_Manual_of_Style" title="The Chicago Manual of Style">The Chicago Manual of Style</a></i> from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Chicago_Press" title="University of Chicago Press">University of Chicago Press</a>. Australia has a style guide, available online, created by its government.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sizes">Sizes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Style_guide&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Sizes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_style_guides" title="List of style guides">List of style guides</a></div> <p>The variety in scope and length is enabled by the cascading of one style over another, analogous to how styles cascade <a href="/wiki/Style_sheet_(web_development)" title="Style sheet (web development)">in web development</a> and <a href="/wiki/Style_sheet_(desktop_publishing)" title="Style sheet (desktop publishing)">in desktop</a> cascade over <a href="/wiki/CSS" title="CSS">CSS</a> styles. </p><p>In many cases, a project such as a <a href="/wiki/Book" title="Book">book</a>, <a href="/wiki/Academic_journal" title="Academic journal">journal</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Monograph" title="Monograph">monograph</a> series typically has a short style sheet that cascades over the larger style guide of an organization such as a <a href="/wiki/Publishing" title="Publishing">publishing</a> company, whose specific content is usually called <i>house style</i>. Most house styles, in turn, cascade over an industry-wide or profession-wide style manual that is even more comprehensive. Examples of industry style guides include: </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Associated_Press_Stylebook" class="mw-redirect" title="The Associated Press Stylebook">The Associated Press Stylebook</a></i> (<i>AP Stylebook</i>) and <i>The Canadian Press Stylebook</i> for journalism</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Chicago_Manual_of_Style" title="The Chicago Manual of Style">The Chicago Manual of Style</a></i> (<i>CMoS</i>) and <a href="/wiki/Hart%27s_Rules" title="Hart's Rules">Oxford style</a> for general academic writing and publishing</li> <li><a href="/wiki/MHRA_Style_Guide" title="MHRA Style Guide">Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) style</a> and <a href="/wiki/ASA_style" title="ASA style">American Sociological Association (ASA) style</a> for the arts and humanities</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Oxford_Standard_for_Citation_of_Legal_Authorities" title="Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities">Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities</a></i> (<i>OSCOLA</i>) and <a href="/wiki/Bluebook" title="Bluebook"><i>Bluebook</i> style</a> for law</li> <li><a href="/wiki/GPO_style_manual" class="mw-redirect" title="GPO style manual">US Government Publishing Office (USGPO) style</a> and <a href="/wiki/Australian_Government_Publishing_Service" title="Australian Government Publishing Service">Australian Government Publishing Service (AGPS) style</a> for government publications</li></ul> <p>Finally, these reference works cascade over the <a href="/wiki/Orthography" title="Orthography">orthographic</a> norms of the language in use (for example, <a href="/wiki/English_orthography" title="English orthography">English orthography</a> for English-language publications). This, of course, may be subject to national variety, such as <a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_American_and_British_English" title="Comparison of American and British English">British, American, Canadian, and Australian English</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Topics">Topics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Style_guide&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Topics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some style guides focus on specific topic areas such as <a href="/wiki/Graphic_design" title="Graphic design">graphic design</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Typography" title="Typography">typography</a>. Website style guides cover a publication's visual and technical aspects as well as text. </p><p>Guides in specific scientific and technical fields may cover <a href="/wiki/Nomenclature" title="Nomenclature">nomenclature</a> to specify names or classifying labels that are clear, standardized, and <a href="/wiki/Ontology" title="Ontology">ontologically</a> sound (e.g., <a href="/wiki/Taxonomy_(biology)" title="Taxonomy (biology)">taxonomy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chemical_nomenclature" title="Chemical nomenclature">chemical nomenclature</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Gene_nomenclature" title="Gene nomenclature">gene nomenclature</a>). </p><p>Style guides that cover <a href="/wiki/Usage_(language)" title="Usage (language)">usage</a> may suggest descriptive terms for people which avoid <a href="/wiki/Racism" title="Racism">racism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sexism" title="Sexism">sexism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Homophobia" title="Homophobia">homophobia</a>, etc. Style guides increasingly incorporate <a href="/wiki/Accessibility" title="Accessibility">accessibility</a> conventions for audience members with visual, mobility, or other disabilities.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Web_style_guides">Web style guides</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Style_guide&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Web style guides"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since the rise of the digital age, websites have allowed for an expansion of style guide conventions that account for digital behavior such as <a href="/wiki/Screen_reading" title="Screen reading">screen reading</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Screen reading requires web style guides to focus more intently on a user experience subjected to multichannel surfing. Though web style guides can also vary widely, they tend to prioritize similar values concerning brevity, terminology, syntax, tone, structure, typography, graphics, and errors.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Updating">Updating</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Style_guide&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Updating"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Most style guides are revised periodically to accommodate changes in conventions and usage. The frequency of updating and the <a href="/wiki/Revision_control" class="mw-redirect" title="Revision control">revision control</a> are determined by the subject. 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For example, the <i>AP Stylebook</i> is revised annually, and the Chicago, APA, and ASA manuals are in their 17th, 7th, and 6th editions, respectively, as of 2023.<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Style_guide&action=edit">[update]</a></sup> Many house styles and individual project styles change more frequently, especially for new projects. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Style_guide&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output 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