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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