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altLangPage: "https://conception.canada.ca/guide-redaction"
date: 2017-10-05
dateModified: 2024-02-08
dateModified: 2024-02-14
description: "The Canada.ca Content Style Guide provides the rules to create web content that can be easily found, understood and used."
title: "Canada.ca Content Style Guide"
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<h2>Recent updates</h2>
<p>Most recent updates to the guide:</p>
<ul class="mrgn-tp-lg">
<li>as of January 2024, <cite>The Canadian Style</cite> and <cite>Le guide du rédacteur</cite> were archived, with their content integrated into <a href="https://www.noslangues-ourlanguages.gc.ca/en/writing-tips-plus/index-eng"><cite>Writing Tips Plus</cite></a> and the <span lang=fr><a href="https://www.noslangues-ourlanguages.gc.ca/fr/cles-de-la-redaction/index-fra"><cite>Clés de la rédaction</cite></a></span>. We’ve updated references and links in the following sections:</li>
<ul>
<li><a href="/style-guide/#toc2">purpose section</a>: removed references to <cite>The Canadian Style</cite> and replaced with <cite>Writing Tips Plus</cite></li>
<li><a href="/style-guide/#wp4-2">section 4.2 Underlining, bold and italics</a>: replaced links to archived content with links to current articles</li>
<li><a href="/style-guide/#toc13">resources section</a> updated</li>
</ul>
<li>in section 2.1 Start with the most important information, we've <a href="/style-guide/#wp2-1">updated the inverted pyramid image</a>. We removed most of the words from the image and worked it into the page content to make the section easier to read.</li>
<li>in <a href="/style-guide/#wp4-4">section 4.4 Abbreviations and acronyms</a> added quick reference links to help users find information related to abbreviations. This includes:</li>
<ul>
<li>update to specify that abbreviations should be accompanied by their long form the first time they’re used on a page</li>
<li>update to specify that abbreviations should be accompanied by their long form the first time they’re used on a page</li>
<li><a href="/style-guide/#wp4-4-2">new subsection Styles of address&nbsp;:</a></li>
<ul>
<li>how to abbreviate, punctuate and format titles, degrees and distinctions with personal names (eg. PhD, Ph.D. Dr.).</li>
<li>styles of address and honorific titles</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li>Under section 7.2 Write descriptive links, added a subsection <a href="/style-guide/#wp7-2-2">Use parentheses for contextual information</a> to clarify how and when to add additional information inside hyperlinks. This new section integrates the content from section 7.4, which is no longer necessary.</li>
</ul>
<ul class="mrgn-tp-lg">
<li>as of January 2024, <cite>The Canadian Style</cite> and <cite>Le guide du rédacteur</cite> were archived, with their content integrated into <a href="https://www.noslangues-ourlanguages.gc.ca/en/writing-tips-plus/index-eng"><cite>Writing Tips Plus</cite></a> and the <a href="https://www.noslangues-ourlanguages.gc.ca/fr/cles-de-la-redaction/index-fra"><cite><span lang="fr">Clés de la rédaction</span></cite></a>. We’ve updated references and links in the following sections:
<ul>
<li><a href="/style-guide/#toc2">purpose section</a>: removed references to <cite>The Canadian Style</cite> and replaced with <cite>Writing Tips Plus</cite></li>
<li><a href="/style-guide/#wp4-2">section 4.2 Underlining, bold and italics</a>: replaced links to archived content with links to current articles</li>
<li><a href="/style-guide/#toc13">resources section</a> updated</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>in section 2.1 Start with the most important information, we've <a href="/style-guide/#wp2-1">updated the inverted pyramid image</a>. We removed most of the words from the image and worked it into the page content to make the section easier to read.</li>
<li>in <a href="/style-guide/#wp4-4">section 4.4 Abbreviations and acronyms</a> added quick reference links to help users find information related to abbreviations. This includes:
<ul>
<li>update to specify that abbreviations should be accompanied by their long form the first time they’re used on a page</li>
<li><a href="/style-guide/#wp4-4-2">new subsection Styles of address&nbsp;:</a>
<ul>
<li>how to abbreviate, punctuate and format titles, degrees and distinctions with personal names (eg. PhD, Ph.D. Dr.).</li>
<li>styles of address and honorific titles</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Under section 7.2 Write descriptive links, added a subsection <a href="/style-guide/#wp7-2-2">Use parentheses for contextual information</a> to clarify how and when to add additional information inside hyperlinks. This new section integrates the content from section 7.4, which is no longer necessary.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="update-history.html">Update history</a> (this list begins with changes on May 25, 2023).</p>
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