# Your style sheet

> Your book's editorial decisions (spelling, commas, capitals). Accept the studio's, edit them, or add your own.

A copyeditor keeps a **style sheet** while reading: serial comma or not, US
or UK spelling, how dialogue is punctuated, which words stay capitalized.
Your book has one: the **Style sheet** link beside **Factory →** on your
books page, and at the top of the transmittal.

It is not the same as paragraph styles (Heading 1, Normal). Those shape how
the book **looks**. The style sheet shapes how it **reads**.

## It starts from ours

Your sheet begins as a copy of the studio's [house sheet](/stylesheet/), and
**every rule starts accepted**. If our defaults suit the book, do nothing.

First, say whether the book is **Fiction** or **Nonfiction** (or **Not
yet**). That adds the rules for that kind of book; nothing you've already
decided is lost.

## What you can do

For each rule:

- **Reject** it. It's marked *Not for this book*; **Put back** undoes that.
- **Edit** the wording. It's marked *Edited by you*.
- **Restore ours** to go back to the studio's wording.
- **Add note** for your copyeditor.

To add your own, choose **+ Add a rule** under the title. It goes in *Our
additions* unless you pick another section; each section also has its own
**+ Add a rule to …** at the end. Your own rules are marked *Your rule* and
can be deleted. **Accept all** puts back any rules you rejected and keeps
your edits and additions.

Changes save as you make them. **Download as Markdown** gives you the whole
sheet as a file for your copyeditor.

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Source: https://studio.jdbb.net/help/style-sheet