[Editor’s desk] Controlling colons and dodging bullets Highlight

With such short list items you probably wouldn’t use bullets at all, but you can see the illustration. It’s a single sentence split up by bullets, and the colon is part of its structure. If the list items were longer or more complex, you’d use semicolons between them to make the separation clearer.

Note that each bullet begins with a small letter, because it’s not a new sentence. To a degree that’s a style preference, but it’s a logical one. I like to end the last bullet with a stop to preserve the structure and show the sentence has ended. That helps readers to know that the content after the list is separate.