![]() ![]() RE: First Instance of Abbreviation: Where? Welcome to the forum, Chris! Does CMOS, section 9.19 help any? RE: Describing a gun, numbers and abbreviations? I like this better than the abbreviations in your initial effort. Is this truly correct usage-that is, every The hyphen, followed by a comma, goes inside the ending quote marks, as does the period and comma in "Jr." and "Sr." In section 10.19, it uses “Jr.,” “Sr.,” and the like. In section 9.10, CMOS uses “Mega-,” “giga-,” “tera-,” and so forth. Thank you very much, RGJaxon! I appreciate your help/advice! RE: Inconsistent abbreviations in dialogue Interesting, thanks for clarifying Pixna. RE: Quotes around abbreviations/initialisms Also, as someone who has an MEd, I can confirm that the d should be lowercase. The reports include a list of definitions for all the acronyms and abbreviations used in the report (usually 1 to 3 pages long), and these often include a few that begin with Greek characters (e.g., "µg/L" for micrograms per l In my work, we generate scientific reports for untrained readers. RE: Commas after state abbreviations in textĪlphabetizing abbreviations starting w/Greek character
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