The Economist Style Guide
Subtitle: A Concise Guide for All Your Business Communications (Economist)
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: April 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780471248392
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).