messagerie-academique-abbeville

Loading...

Taking too long?

Reload document

| Open in new tab

styleguide@oecd.org

OECD
STYLE GUIDE

THIRD EDITION

QUESTIONS?
styleguide@oecd.org

i

O
E
C
D
S
t
y
l
e
G
u
d
e
–
T
h
i
r
d
E
d
i
t
i
o
n

022015011cov.indd 1

17-Sep-2015 3:18:59 PM

OECD
style Guide

styleguide@oecd.org

third edition

See the OECD editorial guidelines at: http://oe.cd/pubguidelines. For legal
matters, consult http://oecdshare.oecd.org/SGE/SITES/LEGALINFO or contact
LEGER@oecd.org.

Please continue to send comments or queries to styleguide@oecd.org, or be
directly in touch with your PAC editors. Refer also to the OECD’s Collaborative
Knowledge-based Terminology Portal (otherwise known as AGORA, www.oecd-
agora.org) which aims to provide correct, consistent definitions and translations
of economic and other specialist terms.

We would like to thank all the colleagues who have contributed to this revision,
including the many communications co-ordinators, publications assistants and
writers who have regularly sent us helpful comments and questions.

oecd style guide – third edition @oecd 2015 Foreword

Today, the way we read and write has changed with the availability of online

and mobile resources 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We have all come to expect

information that is accessible: easy to find, understand and use or re-use.

This third edition of the OECD Style Guide is designed to help you draft and

organise your published material so that readers can easily navigate, understand

and access OECD analysis, statistics and information. It does so by:

•

providing basic guidelines to ensure that we present our work in a way

that meets the needs of our expanding, mostly online, audiences

• offering tips on good writing
•

all OECD information.

setting out the standards and conventions that should be used for drafting

The rules and conventions are for use by OECD staff working on all OECD

communications platforms, whether print or on line, books, articles, webpages,

working papers, social media or presentations. They are designed to encourage

consistency and clarity. Conventions that are appropriate for one platform and

not others have been highlighted.

We recommend consulting the most recent editions of the Concise Oxford

English Dictionary and the Oxford Style Manual for details not covered here.

Please also refer to the PAC Publishing Guidelines available on http://oe.cd/

pubguidelines.

foreword

3

oecd style guide – third edition @oecd 2015 table of contents

Table of contents

part i

publishing at the oecd

1.

Publishing at the OECD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Who are our readers? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Why do we publish? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

What do we publish? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

How do we publish? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

How do people read? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

10

11

12

14

16

2. Writing for the OECD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Organising your content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

19

Titles and headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Structuring your publication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Executive summaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Chapter abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Figure and table presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Marketing blurbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

31

Watch out for plagiarism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
3. Drafting tips and principles of style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Keep it short and simple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Choose the right words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

A few tips on grammar and syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Drafting checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

4

oecd style guide – third edition @oecd 2015