{"id":5834,"date":"2023-07-14T09:54:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T08:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/styleguide.iec.ch\/?docs=docly-documentation\/footnotes\/use-of-acronyms-and-their-explanations"},"modified":"2023-09-19T18:22:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T17:22:48","slug":"acronyms-explanations","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/styleguide.iec.ch\/?docs=iec\/acronyms\/acronyms-explanations","title":{"rendered":"Use of acronyms and their explanations"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5834\" class=\"elementor elementor-5834\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5b5aa1bc elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5b5aa1bc\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2e47b78d\" data-id=\"2e47b78d\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-127a1889 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"127a1889\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Do not use acronyms in the main title of a document, except IEC<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>In documents, reports or similar documents [10 pages or less], use the acronym with explanation once, and then use the acronym alone from that point onwards<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>In long documents, such as brochures, white papers, etc., rewrite the explanation and the acronym once on each new part or section, because readers may only look at certain sections rather than the whole document from start to finish<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>In articles, use the explanation of the acronym once for each article<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>On web pages, use the explanation of the acronym once for each web page<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do not use acronyms in the main title of a document, except IEC \u00a0 In documents, reports or similar documents [10 pages or less], use the acronym with explanation once, and then use the acronym alone from that point onwards \u00a0 In long documents, such as brochures, white papers, etc., rewrite the explanation and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":5427,"menu_order":36,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-5834","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/styleguide.iec.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/5834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/styleguide.iec.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/styleguide.iec.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/styleguide.iec.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/styleguide.iec.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5834"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/styleguide.iec.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/5834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6398,"href":"https:\/\/styleguide.iec.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/5834\/revisions\/6398"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/styleguide.iec.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/5427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/styleguide.iec.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/styleguide.iec.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fdoc_tag&post=5834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}