About the Style Guide

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Download an easily printable version of the Style Guide by clicking here: /printable/stylebook.pdf. This file is more than 400 KB in size. On a very slow connection it may take 10 minutes to download. Save this file.

To print the entire guide, press on the print button in your Adobe Acrobat Reader.

• Headings in green panel: Arial bold
• Body text: Roman
• Prescribed forms: in bold only where necessary for sense
• Examples of use: italics
• Despatch examples: monospace
• Negative examples: in quotation marks