should be “confined to parentheses and notes and followed by a comma.”
#Namely abbreviation manual#
The Chicago Manual of Style states that i.e. “whether a comma follows or not is indifferent, or rather is decided by the punctuation-pitch of the writer of the passage. without a following comma.įowler, in his venerable Modern English Usage, opines that The Penguin Writer’s Manual (British) shows both i.e. The consensus seems to be in favor of the comma in American usage against it in British usage. phrase occurs in a running text (i.e., not enclosed in parenthesis). They do all agree that a comma precedes i.e. Style guides do not agree on whether or not a comma should follow both these abbreviations. On the other hand, instead of e.g., you can write “for example,” and for i.e., you can write “namely” or “in other words.” E.g., therefore, is the one that means “for example.” If you have trouble remembering which means “in other words” and which means “for example,” you can use a mnemonic to keep them apart, or you can avoid using them altogether.Ī simple mnemonic that helps many writers is the fact that the word example begins with the letter e. I.e.: from the Latin phrase id est, “that is.” Used in English to restate a previous word or expression: “He really enjoys a good bildungsroman, i.e., coming-of-age novel.”Į.g.: from the Latin phrase exempli gratia, “for the sake of the example.” In English, it means “for example” and is used to introduce one or more examples: “I like animals, e.g. By Maeve MaddoxĪ reader wants to know if the abbreviations i.e.
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