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# Google Developer Documentation Style Guide > Markdown mirror of Google's developer documentation style guide, reproduced > verbatim from <https://developers.google.com/style/>—work > [created and shared by Google](https://developers.google.com/readme/policies), used > under the [Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); > code samples under the [Apache 2.0 License](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0). > Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Google. ## Introduction - [About this guide](docs/style.md) - [Highlights](docs/highlights.md) - [What's new](docs/whats-new.md) - [Philosophy of this guide](docs/philosophy.md) ## Key resources - [Word list](docs/word-list.md) - [Product names](docs/product-names.md) - [Text-formatting summary](docs/text-formatting.md) ## General principles - [Accessibility](docs/accessibility.md) - [Excessive claims](docs/excessive-claims.md) - [Future features](docs/future.md) - [Global audience](docs/translation.md) - [Inclusive language](docs/inclusive-documentation.md) - [Jargon](docs/jargon.md) - [Prescriptive documentation](docs/prescriptive-documentation.md) - [Third-party content](docs/other-sources.md) - [Timeless documentation](docs/timeless-documentation.md) - [Voice and tone](docs/tone.md) ## Language and grammar - [Abbreviations](docs/abbreviations.md) - [Active voice](docs/voice.md) - [Anthropomorphism](docs/anthropomorphism.md) - [Articles (a, an, the)](docs/articles.md) - [Capitalization](docs/capitalization.md) - [Contractions](docs/contractions.md) - [Pluralization](docs/pluralization.md) - [Possessives](docs/possessives.md) - [Prepositions](docs/prepositions.md) - [Present tense](docs/tense.md) - [Pronouns](docs/pronouns.md) - [Second person](docs/person.md) - [Sentence structure](docs/sentence-structure.md) - [Verbs in reference documents](docs/reference-verbs.md) ## Punctuation - [Colons](docs/colons.md) - [Commas](docs/commas.md) - [Dashes](docs/dashes.md) - [Ellipses](docs/ellipses.md) - [Hyphens](docs/hyphens.md) - [Parentheses](docs/parentheses.md) - [Periods and end punctuation](docs/periods.md) - [Quotation marks](docs/quotation-marks.md) - [Semicolons](docs/semicolons.md) - [Slashes](docs/slashes.md) ## Formatting and organization - [Dates and times](docs/dates-times.md) - [Examples](docs/format-examples.md) - [Figures and other images](docs/images.md) - [Footnotes](docs/footnotes.md) - [Headings and titles](docs/headings.md) - [Italics with terms](docs/italics-terms.md) - [Lists](docs/lists.md) - [Mathematical notation](docs/mathematical-notation.md) - [Notes and other notices](docs/notices.md) - [Numbers](docs/numbers.md) - [Paragraphs](docs/paragraph-structure.md) - [Phone numbers](docs/phone-numbers.md) - [Procedures](docs/procedures.md) - [Tables](docs/tables.md) - [Units of measurement](docs/units-of-measure.md) ## Linking - [Cross-references and linking](docs/cross-references.md) - [Headings as link targets](docs/headings-targets.md) ## Computer interfaces - [API reference code comments](docs/api-reference-comments.md) - [Code in text](docs/code-in-text.md) - [Code samples](docs/code-samples.md) - [Command-line syntax](docs/code-syntax.md) - [Placeholder formatting](docs/placeholders.md) - [UI elements and interaction](docs/ui-elements.md) ## HTML and CSS - [HTML and semantic tagging](docs/semantic-tagging.md) - [HTML formatting](docs/html-formatting.md) - [Markdown versus HTML](docs/markdown.md) ## Names and naming - [Example domains and names](docs/examples.md) - [Filenames](docs/filenames.md) - [Trademarks](docs/trademarks.md) ## Full documentation - [llms-full.txt](llms-full.txt): every page above, concatenated into one file