| Term | Definition / Meaning / Stand for |
| A&I |
Abstracting & Indexing |
| AACR |
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules |
| AAN |
Alternative Newsweekly Association |
| ABA |
American Booksellers Association |
| ABE |
Antiquarian Book Exchange |
| AC |
Author Copy |
| ACM |
Association for Computing Machinery (publishes journals) |
| ACQ |
Acquisition (used in book publishing) |
| ACS |
American Chemical Society (publishes scientific journals) |
| AHR |
Annual Historical Review |
| AI |
Advance Information (used in publishing catalogs) |
| AIP |
American Institute of Physics (publishes scientific journals) |
| AIT |
Author Indexing Tool |
| AJ |
Academic Journal |
| ALA |
American Library Association |
| ALS |
Author's Last Submission |
| ALT |
Alternative Text (for images in digital publishing) |
| AM |
Author's Manuscript |
| AMS |
American Mathematical Society (publishes books and journals) |
| AMZN |
Amazon (stock market abbreviation) |
| AP |
Associated Press |
| APA |
American Psychological Association (citation style) |
| APC |
Article Processing Charge (common in open-access publishing) |
| APC |
Article Processing Charge |
| APM |
Accepted Proof Manuscript |
| APS |
American Physical Society (publishes physics journals) |
| AR |
Advance Review |
| ARL |
Association of Research Libraries |
| ASAP Pub |
As Soon As Possible Publication |
| ASE |
Author's Submitted Edition |
| ASM |
Article Submission Manager |
| ASME |
American Society of Magazine Editors |
| ASME |
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (publishes journals) |
| ASP |
Academic and Scholarly Publishing |
| ASTM |
American Society for Testing and Materials (publishes standards) |
| AV |
Audiovisual (media in publishing) |
| AVR |
Advance Version Review |
| AWE |
Academic Writing and Editing |
| AWP |
Association of Writers & Writing Programs |
| BCC |
Blind Carbon Copy |
| BIP |
Books in Print |
| BISAC |
Book Industry Standards and Communications |
| BMS |
Book Marketing Strategy |
| BN |
Barnes & Noble |
| BO |
Back Order |
| BOMC |
Book-of-the-Month Club |
| BOT |
Book on Tape |
| BPR |
Book Price Recommendation |
| BPS |
Book Pricing Strategy |
| BPW |
Book Production Workflow |
| BQR |
Book Quality Review |
| BR |
Book Review |
| CDP |
Content Distribution Platform |
| CFP |
Call for Papers |
| CLMP |
Community of Literary Magazines and Presses |
| CLT |
Content Licensing Terms |
| CMS |
Color Management System |
| CMS |
Content Management System |
| CMYK |
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black (printing process) |
| CN |
Copyright Notice |
| COPE |
Committee on Publication Ethics |
| CPA |
Cost Per Acquisition |
| CPC |
Cost Per Click |
| CPL |
Characters Per Line |
| CPO |
Chief Publishing Officer |
| CPQ |
Content Publishing Quality |
| CQ |
Copy Quality |
| CRC |
Camera-Ready Copy |
| CRP |
Copyright Registration Process |
| CSD |
Content Subscription Design |