The Economist Style Guide
Subtitle: 9th Edition
Edition: 9 edition
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: November 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781861979162
Subjects: Usage guides; Reference; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Business Writing; Business & Economics / Business Writing; Business English; Economics; United States; General; Authorship; English language; Style; Style manuals; Usage
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).