Thread: What is the correct way to present the author's abbreviated name?
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Old 08-03-2025, 11:31 PM   #6
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The "right way" also depends in part on what field the book is in. For example, most nontrade STEM books insist on no spaces ("J.R.R. Tolkein"), and in some subfields no periods either ("JRR Tolkein" — or, rather, "Tolkein, JRR").

I personally favor the last for everything, because at least for filenames I try to avoid periods for anything except the file extension (.epub) and volume/edition/year numbers where those are truly significant and I'm keeping other volumes/editions/years that otherwise have the same title. But then, I'm weird.
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