Submit Your Style Guide

When you approach your guide launch, a Bloomberg Connects copy editor uses your organization's chosen style guide to make final recommendations for consistency, clarity, and polish (while maintaining your unique voice and stylistic preferences).

It's helpful for your team to align on a style guide up front, so you can refer to it throughout the onboarding and content development process.

Choose a Style Guide

You have two options:

1. Use your own institutional style guide: If your organization already has a style guide, circulate it with your team and submit a copy though the Style Survey, so your Connects guide can feel like a natural part of your organization's messaging.
2. Use the Connects style guide: If your organization does not have a style guide, it's okay! We encourage you to read through the recommendations in the Bloomberg Connects Style Guide before you begin.

Submit the Style Survey

Once your team is aligned on the style guide you will use, complete our Style Survey. All partners must submit this survey to enter the copyediting phase.

Though style guides are usually fairly extensive, the Style Survey helps clarify additional formatting and editorial preferences that may not be apparent. 

Why is a Style Guide Important?

A style guide outlines institutional standards for writing, formatting, and designing text for the public. At its most basic, a style guide includes standards for:

• Capitalization
• Punctuation
• Use of acronyms and abbreviations
• Treatment of numbers
• Caption formatting
• Citing sources