Is it policy maker or policymaker? Adviser or advisor? Email or e-mail? When do you capitalize titles and offices such as prime minister, president executive director and senior fellow? Should you italicize the name of a blog? When should you use in-text citations instead of footnotes? The newly updated CIGI Style Guide answers these questions and sets out all of the relevant standards, requirements, rules and guidelines for CIGI house style.

CIGI staff, fellows, researchers, external authors and freelance editors are required to use this style guide when preparing their work for publication. Adherence to the style guide ensures a consistent style across all of CIGI’s publications, helps to ensure fewer mistakes are made and provides a framework for coherence when writing. The style guide of an organization should complement its principles and mission. The way in which our authors write about issues and the language they use to describe, for example, race and gender, should reflect CIGI’s core values — innovation, accountability and integrity.

If you should have any questions about CIGI style, please contact: publications@cigionline.org.