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Also ‘Welsh Government’, as it’s the full title.
GOV.UK
All upper case.
(UKHSA) Sometimes people include (GOV.UK) at the end of link text. This isn't necessary, always remove this (and the names of any other sites) from link text.
(UKHSA) Graphs
Style rules apply to graphs which, where possible, should use sentence case text, replace forward slash or hyphens with 'to', and so on.
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(UKHSA) Leave capped down in page and attachment titles., as per existing practice (under review).
Cap up within text to avoid ambiguity / and because it’s a working title.
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Lower case when a group has a very generic title like working group or research team i.e. when it's a common noun.
Ethnic groups are capped down unless referring to a geographical region.
(UKHSA) GUMCAD
GUMCAD STI Surveillance System (this is the registered name of the surveillance system).
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When referring to the surveillance system use , spell it out on first appearance - ‘HIV and AIDS Reporting System (HARS)’ .- then use the acronym,
‘HARS data’ can be used when referring to the data..
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implementation period
Always lower case.
(UKHSA) In vitro and in
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vivo
In vitro (Both two words, no hyphen).
In vivo.HTML they can't be italicised but in PDF apply italics as it helps distinguish the term from general text,
internet
Lower case.
Italics
(UKHSA)
HTML doesn't allow italics so technical terms, foreign phrases and species names are all forced to be plain text.
If italics were used to highlight the name of Do not use italics. Use ‘single quotation marks’ if referring to a document, scheme or initiative, use single quote marks.
(UKHSA) PDF In PDFs we continue to italicise species names, such as bacteria, Clostridium difficile and so on.
Italics can be used for species names in headings in PDF (obviously not in HTML).
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in PDF (obviously not in HTML).
J
(UKHSA) Jab
Obviously a popular term, appropriate for news story, press release, easy read.
In scientific documents prefer 'injection'.
Avoid 'inoculated' which is old fashioned.
Job titles
Specific job titles and ministers’ role titles are upper case: Minister for Housing, Home Secretary.
Some of these remain capitalised in the plural such as Home Secretaries.
Generic job titles and ministers’ role titles are lower case: director, minister.
(UKHSA) All Almost general job descriptions are should be capped down, health adviser, consultant and so on.
Jobs are only capped up if if:
- it’s a
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- specific title East Midlands Health Adviser
- it’s a role defined in legislation or regulations
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- , such as Competent Officer,
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- Food Examiner - check with the author
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- whether this is the case
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K
key stage
Lower case and numeral: key stage 4.
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If a document advises users to do something (like wash their hands) regularly, ask the authors to be more specific - how often?
(UKHSA) Regulations
(UKHSA) Delete ‘No.’ so that ‘EU Regulation No. 2073/2005’ becomes ‘EU Regulation 2073/2005’.
(UKHSA) Responsible officer
Cap down - responsible officer. If the term occurs frequently, use the acronym RO.
(UKHSA) Resistant
(UKHSA) Avoid hyphens, even in compound adjectives, unless absolutely necessary. So:
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