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Originally Posted by LadyKate
I'm just wondering if there is a standard for author initials etc and names like St Amant etc.
Should the initials have a period after them. Should it be St. Amant or St Amant.
I'm trying to standardize but when I download the metadata sometimes the same source will give two different treatments for initials and abbreviations for different books by same author.
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It's up to you what 'standard' you use - like theducks I prefer 'A. B.' over 'A.B.'
But I'm not sure Quality Check helps for the specific case you raise - i.e.
St. Amant or
St Amant, it's about initials not abbreviations. But, if you mean the French poet Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant then I'd spell it out in full and avoid abbreviation.
On the other hand I'd have
Madeleine St John because the
St is not an abbreviation. To write Madeleine Saint John or Madeleine Saint-John would be palpably wrong, ergo St. John would be similarly wrong because the '.' implies it's an abbreviation of Saint.
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