Monday, July 22, 2013

acronyms - Does the long form of an abbreviation go in quotes?



I am trying to use and introduce an abbreviation in a sentence. Example:





I worked with technologies such as Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets (Sass) while working on my project.




Does the "Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets" part need to be in quotes? It seems a bit out-of-place to me while using an acronym with such a peculiar long form.



Thanks


Answer



No. In conventional writing on technical subjects, we do not use quotes. However, you may want to check with the relevant style guide, if any.


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