Google Documentation Style Guide
Google Documentation Style Guide
Introduction
About this guide
Highlights
What’s new
Philosophy of this guide
Key resources
Word list
Product names
Text-formatting summary
General principles
Accessibility
Excessive claims
Future features
Global audience
Inclusive language
Jargon
Prescriptive documentation
Third-party content
Timeless documentation
Voice and tone
Language and grammar
Abbreviations
Active voice
Anthropomorphism
Articles (a, an, the)
Capitalization
Contractions
Plurals in parentheses
Possessives
Prepositions
Present tense
Pronouns
Second person
Sentence structure
Verbs in reference documents
Punctuation
Colons
Commas
Dashes
Ellipses
Hyphens
Parentheses
Periods and end punctuation
Quotation marks
Semicolons
Slashes
Formatting and organization
Dates and times
Examples
Figures and other images
Footnotes
Headings and titles
Italics with terms
Lists
Notes and other notices
Numbers
Paragraphs
Phone numbers
Plural of a single letter
Procedures
Tables
Units of measurement
Linking
Cross-references and linking
Headings as link targets
Computer interfaces
API reference code comments
Code in text
Code samples
Command-line syntax
Placeholder formatting
UI elements and interaction
HTML and CSS
HTML and semantic tagging
HTML formatting
Markdown versus HTML
Names and naming
Example domains and names
Filenames
Trademarks
Google Documentation Style Guide
Modified
2025-10-05
Origin:
https://developers.google.com/style
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