Guideline

This article is about the general topic. For other uses, see Guideline (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with guy line.

For guidelines on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:List of guidelines and Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines.

A guideline is a statement by which to determine a course of action. It aims to streamline particular processes according to a set routine or sound practice.^[1] They may be issued by and used by any organization (governmental or private) to make the actions of its employees or divisions more predictable, and presumably of higher quality. A guideline is similar to a rule, but are legally less binding as justified deviations are possible.^[2]

List of guidelines

Examples of guidelines are:

• Code of practice
• EASE Guidelines for Authors and Translators of Scientific Articles
• Federal Sentencing Guidelines
• Guidelines for Examination in the European Patent Office
• Medical guidelines
• Publicly Available Specification
• Programming style guidelines
• UNGEGN Toponymic Guidelines