Abbreviate degrees after a name.
Book sizes, 4to, 8vo, 12mo, should be written without periods.
Use only abbreviations that will surely be understood, such as Y. M. C. A., W. C. T. U., etc., in referring to organizations.
Never write Xmas.
These abbreviations should be used:
- Ald.
- Atty.-Gen.
- Gov.
- Lieut.-Gov.
- Sen.
- Rep.
- Cong.
- Supt.
Abbreviate saint and saints in proper names, as St. Louis, Sault Ste. Marie, Ste. Anne's, SS. Peter and Paul's church.
Write scriptural texts Gen. xiv, 24; II Kings viii, 11-15.
Abbreviate names of political parties only thus, Smith (Rep.) defeated Jones (Dem.) for alderman.
Do not abbreviate street, avenue, boulevard, place or other designation of a thoroughfare.