The University’s style guide for internal use has been revised for Michaelmas term 2025. The current version can be found below.

The University of Oxford Style Guide aims to provide a guide to writing and formatting documents written by staff on behalf of the University (or one of its constituent departments etc). It is part of the University’s Visual identity guidelines which enables the University’s formal documentation to be presented consistently across all communications and is the graphic expression of the University.

Although this style guide is freely available online it has not been written with public or external use in mind. The University of Oxford Style Guide does not purport to compete with OUP’s professional writing guides and dictionaries.

Download the University of Oxford Style Guide here:

The University of Oxford Glossaries, an appendix to the style guide comprising terms and abbreviations in use at Oxford, is now available and can be downloaded here:

Please address any queries on the style guide to[email protected].