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A or an before acronyms Acronyms beginning with a consonant sound use ?a.? Acronyms beginning with a vowel sound use ?an.?

Usually, an article is not used before an acronym: The members of NATO (not the NATO ) rejected the idea. Children often collect for UNICEF (not the UNICEF ) at Halloween.

The general rule for indefinite articles is to use a before consonants and an before vowels. The trick here is to use your ears (how the acronym is pronounced), not your eyes (how it's spelled). HIV (pronounced "aitch eye vee") begins with a vowel sound, so an HIV patient is correct.

If you find similarities in author names, consider adding your full middle name or using your middle initial to distinguish it from other authors. There are several resources to help authors manage unique and consistent author names to ensure that their publications are associated with the correct author.

They knew that using initials can do many things including add a touch of mystery, a patina of literary authority, even a little magic. It places an author in a tradition that includes many of the most celebrated authors of all time including D. H. Lawrence, J. D. Salinger, T. S.

Your middle initial will distinguish you and your book from the other author's books. Online bookstore databases sometimes have a hard time distinguishing between two authors by the exact same name. One of our authors, John Lock, actually goes by J. D. Lock.

Since the letter M is pronounced starting with a vowel (em), we use the article that goes with vowel sounds: an. The patient underwent an MRI scan. And what if we didn't use the acronym but wrote the term out? The patient underwent a magnetic resonance imaging scan.