OECD Style Guide [electronic resource]: Third Edition /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2015.
This third edition of the OECD Style Guide is designed to help draft and organise published material so that readers can easily navigate, understand and access OECD analysis, statistics and information. It does so by 1) providing basic guidelines that meet the needs of our mostly online audiences, 2) offering tips on good writing, and 3) setting out the standards and conventions that should be used to ensure coherence and clarity across all OECD information, on all communications platforms.
Publishing at the OECD -- Writing for the OECD -- Drafting tips and principles of style -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Bibliographical referencing: Sources and citations -- Breaks and hard spaces -- Capitalisation -- Country names, codes and currencies -- Dates and time -- Disclaimers -- Foreign words and expressions -- Gender-neutral language -- Hyphenation -- International organisations -- Italic and roman type -- Notes -- Numbers -- Personal pronouns -- Punctuation -- Quotations -- Spelling -- How to number oecd publications -- How to correct proofs: Standard proofing marks -- Dictionaries and references.
This third edition of the OECD Style Guide is designed to help draft and organise published material so that readers can easily navigate, understand and access OECD analysis, statistics and information. It does so by 1) providing basic guidelines that meet the needs of our mostly online audiences, 2) offering tips on good writing, and 3) setting out the standards and conventions that should be used to ensure coherence and clarity across all OECD information, on all communications platforms.
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