Style and writing guide
A to Z
A
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Active and passive voice
- Addressing the user
- Adviser
- Ages
- Allow list
- American and UK English
- Approaching 16
B
C
- Capital letters
- Case transfer
- Claim and claimant
- Collective nouns
- Colons
- Commas
- Components
- Consultation
- Contractions
- Coronavirus (COVID-19)
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
- Select and switch
- Semicolons
- Sentence length
- Short-term assistance
- Sign in
- Slashes
- Social Security Scotland
- Stillbirth
- Spaces
- SPM screen names and buttons
- Straight-through processing
- Summaries
- Supporting information
- Suspensions
- System names