Create an editorial style guide in minutes with this free template

It’s preloaded with rules to fix the most common errors I've seen in 10 years as an expert copy editor

Any organization or individual steadily publishing content needs an editorial style guide.

A style guide is an essential resource to keep your content clear, consistent, and credible.

Style guides aren't just for publications. Any organization or individual that produces content needs one. Heck, even NASA has one!

A style guide helps you:

  • define and uphold your brand voice and content guidelines

  • be consistent (it would look funny if readers noticed names and words were spelled differently from book to book or blog post to blog post)

  • eliminate repeat grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors that distract your audience

  • quickly onboard and train new writers and editors to your style

Don’t have time to create a style guide?

No problem. I took the time to design one for you.

And this is not your average blank one-page PDF. It's an editable Microsoft Word document that you can start adding to immediately.

Features

  • Grammar and Punctuation sections preloaded with rules to fix the most common errors

  • Spelling and Usage Sheet

  • Instructional text and fill-in-the-blanks to tailor the style guide to your preferences—whether you're a devotee of The Associated Press Stylebook or The Chicago Manual of Style

  • Professional design with an easily customizable color scheme to suit your brand

Ideal for creative agencies, businesses, and publications…

  • “You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what’s burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.”

    Arthur Plotnik, author of The Elements of Editing