Abbreviations in the Clockworks Wiki

Abbreviations

1. We have abbreviated the names of states of the United States, using the standard abbreviations accepted by the United States Postal Service.

2. When we refer to the author of a work in the comments on that work, we will give the author's initials in roman type; when we refer to the work itself in a comment, we will abbreviate the work's title and underline it or place the abbreviation within quotation marks.

3. We use the standard abbreviations and reference words as found in The MLA Handbook . . . , 3d edn. (1988; section 6). We give below additional abbreviations, our most usual abbreviations, and abbreviations and short titles that might cause confusion.

AI: Artificial Intelligence (sometimes called "MI," Machine Intelligence)

AIP: American International Pictures

Aboriginal S. F.: Aboriginal Science Fiction

Amazing: Amazing Stories, Amazing Science Fiction, Amazing Science Fiction Stories (vt)

ASFR: Australian Science Fiction Review

Astounding: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, Astounding Stories, Astounding Science Fiction (vt); after 1960, Analog . . .

BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation

BGU Pop P: Bowling Green (State) University Popular Press

biblio.: bibliography, bibliographical

c.: century

©: Copyright

cf.: compare

coll(s).: collection(s), collected (in)

CW: Clockwork Worlds (see under Reference Works)

dir.: director, directed by

dist.: distributor, distributed by, distribution

ed(s).: editor(s)

edn.: edition

esp.: especially

f.: and following pages (for magazine articles spread over several pages)

F&SF: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

FR: Fantasy Review

high-tech: high-technology

If: If, Worlds of Fantasy and Science Fiction; Worlds of IF (vt)

illus.: illustrated (by), illustration(s)

introd.: introduction(s), introduced by, introductory

JPC: Journal of Popular Culture

n.d.: no date

passim: throughout the work, here and there

prod.: producer(s), produced by, production company

publ.: published, publication

pseud.: pseudonym

q.v.: which see

rev.: review, reviewed, reviewed by, revised

rpt(s).: reprint(s), reprinted (in)

S. F.: science fiction

S. F. Ency.: The Science Fiction Encyclopedia (see under Reference Works)

SF: SF (an undefined term); "Speculative Fiction," including science fiction, utopias, and related sub genres;

            "Structural Fabulation" (as used by Robert Scholes in his study, Structural Fabulation [1975])

SFS: Science-Fiction Studies

sic: "thus" — what seems a mistake is correct (or at least correctly copied)

SpFx: special effects

TMG: The Mechanical God (see under Reference Works)

trans.: translator(s), translation(s), translated by

vol(s).: volume(s)

vt: variant title, variant titles