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house style

 
 
noun [C or U] COMMUNICATIONS, WORKPLACE

Definition

a set of rules about what spellings and style of writing must be used when producing documents for a particular company: All the organization's documents conform to a house style.
(Definition of house style noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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