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

Dashes

We don’t use a dash between numbers when the words ‘from’ or ‘between’ come before the number range.

But we do in most other instances. This should be an en dash (longer than a hyphen) without spaces either side.

CORRECT
INCORRECT
The car journey was between 250 and 260 miles
The car journey was between 250-260 miles
See chapters 1-12 for more information

Writing Playbook