I have the same question, I'm writing a whitepaper (a useful one, with how-to steps things and supporting code), and I cast about looking for a style guide and

I have the same question, I'm writing a whitepaper (a useful one, with how-to steps things and supporting code), and I cast about looking for a style guide and format for "whitepaper". Imagine my surprise when I found a site from someone who calls himself "the whitepaper guy" -- he writes whitepapers for hire, for anyone, any business. I'm made to realize it's marketing under a veneer of tech information exchange. What amounts to genuine tech exchange these days, as it appears to me, are mostly PowerPoint presentations at conferences. The formal docs are man pages, and probably RFCs, the informal docs are some guy's blog or a single blog page. The project's README.md are helpful as well but they conform to the individual and not any style. Serious tech papers conform to scientific and research publication style, and even then style guide has more to do with citations. There's nothing standard and easy to reach for in the business-technology intersection.