Timeline for Repeating abbreviation in body text if already in chapter/section title
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| Jan 12, 2023 at 16:07 | comment | added | kaiya | @iwantmyphd if it's common only in a specific area of research, spell it out once to help cross-discipline researchers. For truly commonly known abbreviations I do not know, but I believe the entire point about spelling it out is to remove ambiguities, so if there is reason to believe that truly everyone understand the abbreviation, that's an interesting question. | |
| Nov 14, 2015 at 3:56 | comment | added | iwantmyphd | So in the exception when it's a really common abbreviation that is ok to use in a title, do you spell it out before using the abbreviation the first time in the text? | |
| Nov 14, 2015 at 0:44 | history | answered | mhwombat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |