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Which is correct for a college english paper: USDA or U.S.D.A.?

Asked by stemnyjones (3981points) March 23rd, 2011

I’m writing a paper for my English 102 class about the lack of sanitation and food safety practices within slaughter houses. Needless to say, I will be referencing the USDA a lot.

Would the proper way to spell it be USDA or U.S.D.A.?

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MLA style, btw.

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The acronym without punctuation after the full name of the entity has been used once with the acronym beside it in parentheses.
CMS

same for MLA
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/11/

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“Do not use periods or spaces in abbreviations composed solely of capital letters, except in the case of proper names:
US, MA, CD, HTML
P. D. James, J. R. R. Tolkien, E. B. White” (source)

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