Enlaces Institucionales
-
Oficina de Traducciones
Portal lingüístico de Canadá
-
TERMIUM Plus® – Búsqueda
-
Capítulos
- - Close Abbreviations
- Introduction to Abbreviations
- General guidelines and observations
- Periods
- Plurals
- Capital letters and hyphens
- Titles used with personal names
- Military abbreviations
- University degrees, professional designations, military decorations, honours, awards and memberships
- Geographical names
- Addresses: streets and buildings; points of the compass
- Latitude and longitude
- Parts of a book or document
- Latin terms
- Scientific and technical terms
- Corporate names
- Acronyms and initialisms
- Number and percentage symbols
- Ampersand
- Monetary units
- Months and days
- Time of day and elapsed time
- Time zones
- The International System of Units (SI)
- The imperial system
- Business terms, expressions and symbols
- + Hyphenation: Compounding and Word Division
- + Spelling
- + Capitalization
- + Numerical Expressions
- + Italics
- + Punctuation
- + Quotations and Quotation Marks
- + Reference Matter
- + Letters and Memorandums
- + Reports and Minutes
- + Usage
- + Plain Language
- + Elimination of Stereotyping in Written Communications
- + Geographical Names
- + Revision and Proofreading
- + French Typographical Rules
- - Close Abbreviations
Divulgación proactiva
Área de búsqueda y funciones
1.10 Addresses: streets and buildings; points of the compass
Streets and buildings
Words such as Street, Avenue, Place, Road, Square, Boulevard, Terrace, Drive, Court and Building are spelled out in general writing but may be abbreviated in footnotes, endnotes, sidenotes, tables and addresses. If the word forms part of a longer name, do not abbreviate it under any circumstances:
- He worked at the Journal Building.
- Get off at Queen Street Station.
Points of the compass
Abbreviate compass directions as follows:
- N
- NE
- S
- SW
- E
- NNW
- W
- ESE
In general writing, the abbreviations NE, NW, SE and SW may be used to denote town and city divisions, but the words north, south, east and west should always be spelled out:
- NW Toronto
- Ottawa east
In general writing, abbreviated compass directions in street addresses are followed by a period:
- 75 Booth St. N.
Addresses, Note
On pieces of mail, abbreviated compass directions are not followed by a period.
Do not abbreviate words such as East, West, Southeast, Northwest when they appear before a street name:
- 150 East 52nd Street
- 111 Southeast Central Park Avenue
© Services publics et Approvisionnement Canada, 2025
TERMIUM Plus®, el banco de datos terminológicos y lingüísticos del Gobierno de Canadá
Ayuda a la redacción – The Canadian Style
Un producto de la Oficina de Traducciones
