You can use bullet points to make text easier to read.

There are two ways to format bullet points. Avoid switching between these two ways of formatting within one page or document.

Short list bullets

When you're listing short information, you can use a bulleted list like this. Make sure that:

• you always use a lead-in line
• the lead-in line ends with a colon
• the bullets make sense running on from the lead-in line
• you use lower case at the start of the bullet
• you don't use more than one sentence per bullet point – use commas or dashes to expand on an item
• if you add links they appear within the text and not as the whole bullet
• you don't end a bullet with a semicolon, "and" or "or"
• you don't put a full stop after the last bullet

Full sentence bullets

This in an alternative way of formatting bullets, for when you're listing longer points.

• This should be used when each point forms a complete sentence in itself.
• These bullet points don't require or work with a lead in sentence.
• There shouldn't be a colon preceding these bullets.
• You can use a capital at the start of each bullet.
• You can also end each bullet point with a full stop.
• Just like the other type of bullets, you shouldn't end any bullet with "or", "and" or a semicolon.