"Economist" Style Guide ("Economist" Books)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Published: September 2, 1993
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780241001790
Subjects: Reference works; Writing & editing guides
First sentence: ABBREVIATIONS. Unless an abbreviation or acronym is so familiar that it is used more often than the full form (eg, BBC, CIA, DNA, EU, FBI, GATT, IMF, NATO, OECD), write the words in full on first appearance: thus Trades Union Congress (not TUC).