This element identifies an acronym in the text. An acronym is a word that is formed from the initial letters of other words, as in BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation).

The <acronym>BBC</acronym> has a nice Web site.

The content of this element does not need to be presented in a different style to surrounding text, though this is a possibility.

The elements listed below may directly contain this element. They are "parent" elements. Elements in referenced groups are included, up to two levels of group nesting.

Parent elements: <fundingsource>

- (via "Acronyms and Terms in Text" group: <issuetitle> <booktitle> <addinfo> <term> <caption> <endnotes> <endnote> <terminology>

- - (via "Document Title Content" group: <supertitle> <title> <subtitle> <shorttitle> <abbrevtitle> <doititle> <shortsectionhead> )

- - (via "Title Content" group: <journaltitle> <journalsubtitle> <chaptitle> <pubname> <presentationtitle> <collectworktitle> <docpubtitle> <patenttitle> <articletitle> <listtitle> )

- - (via "Paragraph Content" group: <authornote> <para> <poemline> <computertext> <source> <entry> ) )

The DTD model for this element:

 (only text allowed) 

The DTD contains the following element and attribute definitions (note that embedded links are to definitions within the DTD page of this guide):

<!ELEMENT acronym                        (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST acronym
               %a-group-CommonIDAttrs;>

Defined in DTD section Inline-level Content : Formatting and Identifying : Generic-Oriented

Common Optional ID Attributes (a-group-CommonIDAttrs)