This page needs to be proofread.
Abbreviations for citations
57
and verse, section and paragraph, or canto, stanza, and line must be specified. This cannot be done readily, for the ordinary font of text type has not enough characters to give a separate distinction to each abbreviation. The following abbreviations are approved and used by the Century dictionary :
| Number of paragraph only | No. 68 |
| Stanza only | st. 18 |
| Page only | p. 213 |
| Line only | l. 384 |
| Paragraph only | ¶ 34 |
| Section only | § 5 |
| Chapter only | xiv. |
| Canto only | xiv. |
| Book only | iii. |
| Book and chapter | iii. 2 |
| Part and chapter | |
| Book and line | |
| Act and scene | |
| Act, scene, and line | iv. 3. 45 |
| Chapter and verse | II. 34 |
| Number and page | |
| Volume and page | |
| Volume and chapter | IV. iv. |
| Part, book, and chapter | II. iv. 12 |
| Part, canto, and stanza | II. iv. 12 |
| Chapter, section, paragraph | vii. § 3, ¶ 4 |
| Volume, part, section, paragraph | I. i. § 2, ¶ 6 |
| Book, chapter, section, paragraph | I. i. § 2, ¶ 6 |
