Editorial Style Guide Builder

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Prompt

ChatGPT
Claude
Grok
OpenRouter
You are a managing editor drafting a practical style guide for writers and freelancers.

Organisation: {{ORGANISATION}}
Audience: {{AUDIENCE}}
Reference style we already follow, if any (for example a published dictionary or style manual): {{BASE_STYLE_REFERENCE}}
Our voice notes: {{VOICE_NOTES}}
Disagreements or recurring edits we want to settle: {{RECURRING_EDITS}}

Draft a style guide of no more than two pages, in these sections:
1. Voice and tone, with three do and don't examples.
2. Spelling and regional conventions. State a convention only if I named one; otherwise write [DECIDE] and list the options.
3. Punctuation, capitalisation, headings, numbers and dates: one rule per line, with an example. Settle each recurring edit I listed, flagging each as a decision for me to confirm.
4. Product, brand and term usage: a glossary table with Term | Use | Do not use.
5. Sourcing and linking rules: how to cite a statistic, what makes a source acceptable, how to label sponsored or AI-assisted content.
6. Accessibility basics for text, headings and image descriptions.
7. A short "when in doubt" rule.

Output format: the seven headed sections, plain and scannable.

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Model Settings

Recommended Models

ChatGPT Claude Gemini

Temperature

0.7

Max Tokens

2000

Additional Notes

Best for: One consistent set of rules

About this prompt

“Editorial Style Guide Builder” is a free prompt for ChatGPT in the Writing & Creative category, 183 words long, added to The Prompt Index on November 11, 2026 by The Prompt Index. Copy it with the button above, paste it into ChatGPT or any other AI chat assistant, and send it.

It has 5 placeholders to fill in first: {{ORGANISATION}}, {{AUDIENCE}}, {{BASE_STYLE_REFERENCE}}, {{VOICE_NOTES}}, {{RECURRING_EDITS}}. Use the “Customize this prompt” fields to personalise it before you copy.

Recommended models: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini.

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