{"id":492,"date":"2015-05-29T13:27:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T11:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/?page_id=492"},"modified":"2015-05-29T13:27:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T11:27:06","slug":"ampersands","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/pagina-exemple\/abbreviations-and-symbols\/symbols\/ampersands\/","title":{"rendered":"Ampersands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our institutional context, the ampersand is mainly found in the formal names of firms or businesses, where it should not be replaced with the word <em>and<\/em>. The ampersand, and not the plus sign, should be used to abbreviate the phrase <em>research and development<\/em>.<\/p>\n<table class=\"tipsExemple tipsCorrecte\" summary=\"Taula amb exemples\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tipsEsquerra mida26px\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/files\/2015\/04\/Small_OK.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-80\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/files\/2015\/04\/Small_OK.jpg\" alt=\"Small_OK\" width=\"19\" height=\"19\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td class=\"tipsEsquerra\" valign=\"middle\">Is today\u2019s <span class=\"exemple\">R&amp;D<\/span> model failing to meet the needs of developing countries?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>This guide recommends not using the ampersand as a substitute for the word <em>and<\/em>, as this use is generally a feature of informal writing.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/pagina-exemple\/abbreviations-and-symbols\/symbols\/\">Back to Symbols<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/pagina-exemple\/abbreviations-and-symbols\/\">Back to Abbreviations and Symbols<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/pagina-exemple\/\">Back to Content<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our institutional context, the ampersand is mainly found in the formal names of firms or businesses, where it should not be replaced with the word and. The ampersand, and not the plus sign, should be used to abbreviate the phrase research and development. Is today\u2019s R&amp;D model failing to meet the needs of developing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"parent":443,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-492","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/492\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}