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Macmillan style guide Introduction Hello and welcome to Macmillan’s first style guide. We’ve developed it with love and care so anyone writing on behalf of the organisation can do so in a consistent and effective way. You see, whether we spell adviser with an E or an O may seem fairly trivial, but, in fact, if we really want our communications to be trusted and seen as authoritative, they need to be consistent at all times. So, please use this guide regularly when creating your communications. And if you have any questions or comments about any of its content, or you want a style point added to it, please get in touch by sending an email to styleguide@.uk PS We use ‘adviser’ not ‘advisor’, by the way. But I’m sure you knew that. The Copywriting team Some things to remember Style points not covered – a lot of the style points we use in our style guide are based on the ones listed in The Guardian newspaper’s style guide. This means that if you can’t find a style point covered in this guide, your first port of call should be The Guardian’s online style guide at guardian.co.uk/styleguide. If they don’t cover the point, drop us a line at styleguide@.uk Points highlighted in yellow – these are key style points that you need to remember, you may have found confusing in the past or which have changed from what we previously listed in our editorial guidelines. Spellings – for the correct spelling of words, always use the Oxford English Dictionary. Different dictionaries do spell some words differently. References in this guide – you’ll see that there are sometimes references at the end of entries. Any references in italics, for example, see measurement, refer to other entries in the style guide. References within inverted commas, for example, see ‘Punctuation guide’, refer to sections in our editorial guidelines. References in blue, for example, Information and support fact sheet, refer to fact sheets on be.Macmillan that can provide further information about an entr