abbreviations: parts of a book or document

In ordinary writing, do not abbreviate parts of a document followed by a number or letter:

• Part 4
• Table 14
• Appendix C.

Smaller subdivisions such as paragraph, line, page and verse are also written in full.

However, in order to be more concise, you should abbreviate parts of a publication in footnotes, endnotes, bibliographies and indexes:

• abr. (abridged, abridgment)
• bk., bks. (book, books)
• bull. (bulletin)
• c., ch. (chapter, chapters)
• ed., eds. (edition, editions; editor, editors)
• fig. (figure)
• fwd. (foreword)
• jour. (journal)
• mag. (magazine)
• pt., pts. (part, parts)
• ser. (series)
• supp. (supplement)
• vol., vols. (volume, volumes)