Comments on: Using abbreviations and acronyms https://www.scribbr.com/academic-writing/abbreviations-and-acronyms/ The checkpoint for your thesis Thu, 29 Sep 2022 06:18:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.2 By: Shona McCombes https://www.scribbr.com/academic-writing/abbreviations-and-acronyms/#comment-287296 Tue, 05 Jan 2021 18:40:35 +0000 https://www.scribbr.com/?p=10710#comment-287296 In reply to Gemma Haywood.

Hi Gemma,

Your best option is probably to insert the full term into the quote in square brackets. It depends on which style guide you’re following, but square brackets are used to add clarifying or explanatory material to direct quotations in APA and several other styles.

I hope that helps!

]]> By: Gemma Haywood https://www.scribbr.com/academic-writing/abbreviations-and-acronyms/#comment-283708 Mon, 28 Dec 2020 17:00:05 +0000 https://www.scribbr.com/?p=10710#comment-283708 How do we deal with an acronym in a direct quote from a research paper? In this case a similar acronym has been used in the rest of the report but this particular quotation uses a slightly different acronym. How to deal with this?

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