: Re: Where to put acronym/abbreviation explanation? I'm writing my thesis, and I use some acronyms in it. For example "MDBs" = "Multilateral Development Banks". Usually, I write "Multilateral Development

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I assume you're using latex with autogenerated glossary, if not you probably should.

usepackage[acronym]{glossaries}

makeglossaries

newacronym{MDBs}{MDBs}{Multilateral Development Banks}

If this is some acronym you will use more later, it's better to introduce it in the main text before it shows up in a table:

In this part of research we used gls{MDBs}, the best stuff since slice bread, see autoref{tab:table1}.

begin{table}[h]
some stuff about gls{MDBs}
label{tab:table1}
end{table}

If it is only used in this table and nowhere else there is little reason to make an acronym at all. Just spell it all out:

begin{table}[h]
some stuff about Multilateral Development Banks.
label{tab:table1}
end{table}

If you really need or want to introduce the acronym in the table, it makes more sense to expand it in the caption. I don't remember how to do it in tex macro:

begin{table}[h]
some stuff about Multilateral Development Banks^{1}.
caption[Table about stuff]{This table contains stuff. Acronyms: gls{MDBs}, gls{ABC}, ...}
label{tab:table1}
end{table}

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