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Abbreviations in Fiction - CMOS Shop Talk
| Abbreviations in Fiction - CMOS Shop Talk CMOS Shop Talk From the Chicago Manual of Style Menu Skip...Contact Join Abbreviations in Fiction Carol Saller / May 12, 2020 A great many common abbreviations ...Chicago’s advice for wrangling abbreviations (see CMOS 10.3) can be safely ignored by fiction writers... |
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| info about the publisher and year of publication. Is there any abbreviation indicating that the name...FAQ Item Abbreviations Q. I know there are abbreviations such as n.p. and n.d. indicating missing... |
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| FAQ Item Abbreviations Q. My publisher prefers that AD come before the year (as in “AD 99”), but...”? A. The abbreviation AD stands for anno Domini, Latin for “in the year of the Lord,” so the order...Common Era), both of which follow the year, but the older abbreviations have persisted and are more... |
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| acceptable to leave the abbreviation after the year when it refers to a decade, as in “the 30s AD...Latin phrase behind the abbreviation (one would write “in the year 30,” not “30 in the year”). But...FAQ Item Abbreviations Q. I have two questions about the use of AD (anno Domini). First, is it... |
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| it acceptable to leave the abbreviation after the year when it refers to a decade, as in “the 30s AD...accommodate the Latin phrase behind the abbreviation (one would write “in the year 30,” not “30 in the...Topic Q&A List Abbreviations Display All Answers Q. What is the stance of CMOS on single-letter... |
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| FAQ Item Abbreviations Q. This is a question of some debate in my organization: which way should...the following document (and other similar documents) be abbreviated? Federal Information Security...FISMA refers only to the act of 2002, and no other FISM acts were created in other years, then the... |
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| FAQ Item Abbreviations Q. I hope you can resolve a dispute between me and my editor. After...“the” is part of the name, but not absorbed by the abbreviation, use “the” as if the abbreviation were...weather. In its ninety-two years, the NAACP has been a cornerstone of American civil liberties... |
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| FAQ Item Numbers Q. Why, in many book titles that include ranges of years, is Chicago style for...with ranges of years styled like this one? A. You’re correct about Chicago’s style for inclusive...dates when a writer chooses to abbreviate them, but CMOS is also fine with spelling them out. In fact... |
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| FAQ Item Abbreviations Q. Once and for all: to abbreviate “postscript” at the end of correspondence...the Q&A use them, like this one. Help! A. Chicago style for the abbreviation of “postscript” can be...deduced from our recommendations for using periods with abbreviations (CMOS 10.4), which can be... |
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| FAQ Item Abbreviations Q. My significant other and I have a disagreement: he maintains that in...been arguing about this for going-on ten years and would like to settle the question in order to...RNs. But as you can see, Chicago style regularly pluralizes abbreviations and skips the pesky... |
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