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Introduction

Welcome

Welcome to CLEO’s updated house style guide. This guide applies to all information that CLEO produces.

This is the first time that we’ve put it online and made it available to others.

Some of our existing content may not reflect what’s in the guide. We’re updating our styles going forward so they’ll apply to new content.

We hope that you find our style guide useful in your own work.

We know that some of the points we make and references we include will be more relevant to CLEO staff.

CLEO staff

Please refer to the guide often so you become familiar with it and comfortable following it.

You may notice some changes, especially in our section on contractions. And we added information on clear design. The section on Inclusive language will be coming soon.

The editors will do a complete review of the guide once a year. But we’ll also make changes as they’re needed. So if you have questions or want to suggest a change or addition, let one of the editors know.

We’ll highlight recent changes and updates in the What’s in style? section.

Style sheets

Some projects and areas of work may need their own style sheets. Style sheets list choices that differ from what’s in this guide or apply to specific types of content.

If you have questions or want help developing a style sheet, contact one of the editors.

General reference materials

For topics not covered in this house style guide, refer to:

  • Editing Canadian English, 3rd edition, 2015
  • The Canadian Press Caps and Spelling
  • Canadian Oxford Dictionary, 2004

All of these are available in the CLEO office.

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