Bulleted list

Question

Typographically can someone confirm what is the correct way to do a bulleted list for print in a paragraph of text:

For example:

This is my bullet list heading

Bullet 1
Bullet 2
Bullet 3

Continuation of paragarph blah blah

or

This is my bullet list heading

bullet 1
bullet 2
bullet 3

Continuation of paragraph

Basically would you bold the the title and run the bullets with one 'return' and a 1mm space after each bullet? or put double returns in.

Hopefully someone can help and even suggest the proper/correct way to do this.

jdpetty · Answer

This is quite old now so probably no longer current. However. Taking your examples very literally, there is no full point after bullet list heading, therefore the bullet 1 would not need capitalising. If bullet 1 ends with a full point then strictly speaking bullet 2 should be capitalised. You have capitalised Continuation of paragraph but, following the same rule, this would be correct only if bullet 3 ended with a full point. Having (for example) bullet 1 followed by Bullet 2 may be correct but can look odd and I have resolved this issue myself in the past by leaving out all full points except for the last bullet point, or ending each bullet point with a full point.

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