Writing Playbook

EDITORIAL STYLE GUIDE
Numbers
Figures
Currency
Dates
Time
Formatting
Bullets
Dashes
Double spacing
Italics / bold / underlining
Language
Abreviations
Capitalisation
Punctuation
Hyphenation
Pronouns
Other
Index
TONE OF VOICE
Principles
Confident
Thoughtful
Natural
Proofreading
Before and after examples
Writing for impact

Currency

Write currencies without spaces and with standard abbreviations.

CORRECT
INCORRECT
£500m
£500 m
$6bn
£500million
$4tn
€360m

For US dollars use the $ symbol. Only use US$ when you need to draw a distinction between two different dollar currencies.

Writing Playbook