縮寫1：A.D.
拉丁文：anno Domini
釋義：in the year of the Lord 耶穌紀(jì)年，公元
例句：The United States Civil War began in AD 1861.

縮寫2：a.m.
拉丁文：Ante Meridiem
釋義：before middday 上午，午前
例句：We will meet the mayor at 10 a.m.

縮寫3：c., ca.
拉丁文：circa
釋義：around, about, approximately 大約
用法：用于日期中表示大概的數(shù)。
例句：The antique clock is from c.1900.

縮寫4：Cap
拉丁文：capitulus
釋義：chapter 章節(jié)
用法：用于英國及其前殖民地的法律章節(jié)前。
例句：Electronic Transactions Ordinance (Cap. 553).

縮寫5：cf.
拉丁文：confer
釋義："bring together" and hence "compare" 試比較
用法：提示讀者比較所引用資料中的說法與文中的論述，與cp.可替換使用。
例句：These results were similar to those obtained using different techniques (cf. Wilson, 1999 and Ansmann, 1992).

縮寫6：cp.
釋義：compare 比較
例句：These results were similar to those obtained using different techniques (cp. Wilson, 1999 and Ansmann, 1992).

縮寫7：C.V.
拉丁文：curriculum vitae
釋義：course of life 簡歷

縮寫8：etc.
拉丁文：et cetera
釋義：and the others, and other things, and the rest 等等
例句：I need to go to the store and buy some pie, milk, cheese, etc.

縮寫9：e.g.
拉丁文：exempli gratia
釋義：for example, for instance 比如
例句：The shipping company instituted a surcharge on any items weighing over a ton; e.g., a car or truck.

縮寫10：ff.
拉丁文：folio
釋義：and following 以及接下去的
例句：see page 258ff.（參見第258頁以及接下去的若干頁）

縮寫11：id.
拉丁文：idem
釋義：the same (man) 同上
用法：用來避免（在引用、腳注、書目等處）重復(fù)某個男性作者的名字。如果是女性作者，用ead. (eadem)。

縮寫12：i.a.
拉丁文：inter alia
釋義：among other things 除了別的因素以外，特別
例句：Ernest Hemingway—author (i.a. 'The Sun Also Rises') and friend.

縮寫13：i.e.
拉丁文：id est
釋義：that is, in other words?即是
例句：For reasons not fully understood there is only a minor PSI contribution to the variable fluorescence emission of chloroplasts (Dau, 1994), i.e., the PSI fluorescence appears to be independent from the state of its reaction centre (Butler, 1978).

縮寫14：lb.
拉丁文：libra
釋義：scales 磅

縮寫15：LL.B.
拉丁文：Legum Baccalaureus
釋義：bachelor of laws 法學(xué)士

縮寫16：M.A.
拉丁文：Magister Artium
釋義：Master of Arts 文科碩士

縮寫17：N.B.
拉丁文：nota bene
釋義：note well 注意，留心
例句：N.B.: All the measurements have an accuracy of withi 5% as they were calibrated according to the procedure described by Jackson (1989).

縮寫18：.
拉丁文：opere citato
釋義：the work cited 在前面所引用的書中
用法：通常用于參考文獻(xiàn)中，同ibid相似，但是ibid通常會跟著頁碼。