Hello!
We're doing an overhaul of our constitution, and I'm wondering what is the best or most common way to connect long names of groups to their respective initialisms. In prose, it's typical for the initialism to be put in parentheses after the first or second time it is mentioned in the text, and that initialism is used for the remainder of the document. For our constitution, we could either 1) write out the whole name and put the group initialism in parenthesis together in the section it's introduced (e.g., "Art. 4 §6 International House of Pancakes (IHOP)") or 2) add a subpoint "terminology" or similar underneath each group's founding section with this information. Other ideas?
#2 would be nice because it would allow the Section titles to be more succinct and make the Table of Contents a lot cleaner, but it feels far more formal than we need? I just figured this isn't the first time anyone's thought of this, and I'm curious to hear your approaches!