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NICE style guide

  • Corporate document
  • Reference number: ECD1
  • Published:  25 January 2016
  • Last updated:  09 December 2024

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  • Overview
  • Using this guide
  • Talking about NICE
  • Talking about people
  • Spelling and choosing the right word
  • Scientific and medical terms
  • Punctuation, formatting and bullet points
  • Hyphens and en dashes
  • Abbreviations and acronyms
  • Capital letters
  • Numbers, units and symbols
  • Tables
  • Charts and images
  • Hyperlinks, footnotes and glossaries
  • Referencing and citations
  • Update information

Overview

This document describes NICE's standard way to express concepts, spell words and format phrases to ensure clear and consistent writing across NICE content. 

Last reviewed: 9 December 2024

We added a new section on socioeconomic status and clarified our advice on other topics. See update information for more details.


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