Addresses

This page summarises the Australian style for physical and electronic addresses. Some of these have their own entries with further detail.
Street
Use short-form referencing with minimal punctuation
4 Acacia St, Bayview NT 0820
4 Acacia St
Bayview NT 0820

Where you are writing a street address in the body text of a document, use minimal punctuation and integrate it into a sentence.

Our new street address will be 16 Hope St, Katoomba NSW 2780 as of Monday.
When addressing envelopes for mailing, prefer a vertical format without punctuation or capitals.

16 Hope St
Katoomba NSW 2780

Post office
Leave out the full stops on ‘PO’ or ‘GPO’ and use title case elsewhere
PO Box 267
Locked Bag 1000
As with street addresses, for post office addresses you should minimise punctuation both in body text and on items being posted.
Our new mailing address will be Locked Bag 27, Katoomba NSW 2780.
GPO Box 1500
Sydney NSW 2001
Web

Use lower case and leave off the ‘http://’ prefix

Visit www.department.gov.au to learn more.

When citing a web address, generally use lower case. Format the address:

  • with a hyperlink in an electronic document.
  • no hyperlink or underlining in a print document.

You rarely need to include the ‘http://’ or ‘https://’ scheme prefix if the domain includes ‘www’.

https://www.plainenglishfoundation.com
www.plainenglishfoundation.com

If the web address comes at the end of a sentence, remember to add a full stop after it.

Email

Use lower case and leave off the ‘mailto://’ prefix

When citing an email address, generally use lower case. Format the address:

  • with a hyperlink in an electronic document.
  • no hyperlink or underlining in a print document.

You don't need to include the ‘mailto://’ scheme prefix.

If the email address comes at the end of a sentence, remember to add a full stop after it.

See also:   Email addresses,  Full stops .,  Street addresses,  Web addresses