non-government organisation (NGO) Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) Plural acronyms When pluralising acronyms, do not add an apostrophe. 2 MPs 2 MP’s Words that be acronyms shouldn’t Avoid using acronyms that are inappropriate (e.g. the acronym is an offensive word). Always make sure to spell out the following: and Torres Strait Do not use the acronym ‘Aboriginal Islander’. ‘ATSI’ of Do not use the acronym ‘whole government’. ‘WOG’. Note: Screen readers will try to pronounce acronyms if they have enough vowels/consonants, otherwise they will say the letters one by one. Be mindful of this. Guidelines for using abbreviations Punctuation and capitalisation Abbreviations made from the first few letters of a word have a full stop at the end. cont. (continued) Mon. (Monday) etc. (etcetera) Abbreviations that consist of the first and last letters of the word do not have a full stop at the end. Qld (Queensland) [But Rd (road) dept (department) QLD in addresses] Abbreviations derived from Latin terms are lower case and need full stops. i.e. (that is) e.g. (for etc. (and so on) et al. (and example) others) We include commas after or but you should place a comma before if it is don’t ‘i.e.’ ‘e.g.’, ‘etc.’ preceded by more than one list item. Only use and in tables or brackets. In running text, spell out in full. ‘i.e.’, ‘e.g.’ ‘etc.’ Guests at your Brisbane registry wedding can include your family, that is, your mother, father, brother, sister, grandmother, and so on. Abbreviated units of measurement do not have full stops or a plural ‘s’. There should be no space between the number and the unit. This is to prevent the number being separated from its unit of measurement over a line break—which, with varying screen sizes, could happen anywhere. See also .
non-government organisation (NGO) Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) Plural acronyms When pluralising acronyms, do not add an apostrophe. 2 MPs 2 MP’s Words that shouldn’t be acronyms Avoid using acronyms that are inappropriate (e.g. the acronym is an offensive word). Always make sure to spell out the following: ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander’. Do not use the acronym ‘ATSI’ ‘whole of government’. Do not use the acronym ‘WOG’. Note: Screen readers will try to pronounce acronyms if they have enough vowels/consonants, otherwise they will say the letters one by one. Be mindful of this. Guidelines for using abbreviations Punctuation and capitalisation Abbreviations made from the first few letters of a word have a full stop at the end. cont. (continued) Mon. (Monday) etc. (etcetera) Abbreviations that consist of the first and last letters of the word do not have a full stop at the end. Qld (Queensland) [But QLD in addresses] Rd (road) dept (department) Abbreviations derived from Latin terms are lower case and need full stops. i.e. (that is) e.g. (for example) etc. (and so on) et al. (and others) We don’t include commas after ‘i.e.’ or ‘e.g.’, but you should place a comma before ‘etc.’ if it is preceded by more than one list item. Only use ‘i.e.’, ‘e.g.’ and ‘etc.’ in tables or brackets. In running text, spell out in full. Guests at your Brisbane registry wedding can include your family, that is, your mother, father, brother, sister, grandmother, and so on. Abbreviated units of measurement do not have full stops or a plural ‘s’. There should be no space between the number and the unit. This is to prevent the number being separated from its unit of measurement over a line break—which, with varying screen sizes, could happen anywhere. See also .