Common contractions, truncations and initialisms
The content of these guidelines is taken from the Vives University Network’s Interuniversity Style Guide for Writing Institutional Texts, an interuniversity project in which the UPC participated with the support of the Secretariat for Universities and Research of the Government of Catalonia.
Common contractions, truncations and initialisms
Abbreviated form
Apr.
Aug.
ca.
cf.
Dec.
e-mail
et al.
e.g.
etc.
Feb.
Fri.
govt.
ibid.
i.e.
Jan.
Mar.
Mon.
natl.
Nov.
Oct.
Sat.
Sep.
sic
sig.
soc.
Sun.
Thurs.
trans.
Tues.
univ.
v
Wed.
Wi-Fi
Full form
April
August
circa (around)
confer (compare)
December
electronic mail
et alii (and others)
exempli gratia (for example)
et cetera (and so forth)
February
Friday
government
ibidem (in the same place)
id est (that is)
January
March
Monday
national
November
October
Saturday
September
sic erat scriptum (thus was it written)
signature
society
Sunday
Thursday
translator, translation, translated by
Tuesday
university
versus (against)
Wednesday
wireless local area network
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