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Digital writing guidelines

These guidelines are to help anyone writing for Springer Nature to keep our digital content consistent, understandable and accessible.

This includes:

  • user interface copy, such as help text, form field labels or error messages
  • long form text such as terms and conditions or instructions
  • emails that are part of a product or service

Using these guidelines

We list everything we currently have content guidance for on the A to Z page.

You can browse that page or use find in page to look for keywords related to your topic.

There will either be a an entry for the word, or a link to the page for that topic.

Style, patterns and how to guides

You can also use the navigation to find topics that have their own page. These are organised into 'style', 'patterns' and 'how to guides'.

Style covers how we do things like abbreviation, numbers or punctuation.

Patterns cover specific scenarios and elements such as links or headings.

How to guides cover how to write for content types like emails or topics like open access.

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