A style guide establishes standard requirements for the wording, style and formatting of a document and is designed to improve the clarity of written documents by ensuring consistency within a text and across multiple texts within the same corpus. The European Pharmacopoeia Style Guide has been specifically designed to provide stylistic guidance to any individuals all those involved in the preparation of monographs for the European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.), including the groups of experts, secretaries of these groups, translators, scientific editors and national secretariats.