Abbreviations

Never abbreviate “university,” “department” or “association.”

Abbreviations of degrees, expressions of time and names of countries use periods with no spaces between the elements. Include a hyphen with no spaces for spans of time.

• Ph.D.
• U.S.
  • With periods in the body of a story; no periods when used in a headline or subhead
• 2 a.m.
• 1:30 p.m.
• 2-4 p.m.
• 3:30-5:30 p.m.
• 5:30 a.m.-6 p.m.

Do not put a space between initials used as a first name.

• E.B. White

Add an “s” with no apostrophe to plural forms of abbreviations.

• The committee was made up of CEOs and CFOs.