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The Canadian Press Online Stylebook contains writing style guidelines from Canada’s national news agency so you can follow the same standards used by media and communications professionals nationwide.
Easy-to-follow guidelines on capitalization, punctuation and abbreviations.
Advice on how to write with style and colour, as well as good taste.
Listings and spellings on countries and cities around the world.
A chapter on writing for and about the internet.
Tips for journalists, including reporting, handling breaking news and interviewing techniques.
Tips for broadcasters, including handling audio, video, reading the news and writing for broadcast, as well as a comprehensive guide to hard-to-pronounce Canadian places.
Tips for PR professionals, including writing press releases, holding conferences and working with the media.
This page is for ordering a one-year renewable subscription to the Online Stylebook ($49.95 for one user). Or go to the Online Stylebook and Caps and Spelling Bundle to order two books ($76.50 for one user).
Place your order: Use our shopping cart to select your desired number of user accounts.
Activate your account: An email from onlinestylebooks@thecanadianpress.com will be sent to you. Follow the link in the email to the account activation page. Choose your username and password, accept the terms and click the “activate your account” button.
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Can I order for multiple users in my organization?
Yes! A “site licence” gives two to 1,000 users access to the Online Stylebook.
With a site licence, one “editor” account is provided in addition to each user getting “individual” accounts.
Notes, examples and style rules added by you in the “editor” account are also visible in the individual accounts of all your users. Whereas anything added in “individual” accounts are not visible by others.