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 subgenres;
'Structural Fabulation' as defined by Robert Scholes in 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