In a similar vein, a major UK newspaper only capitalises the first letter of initialisms or acronyms, e.g. 'Opec' for the Oil Producing and Exporting Companies, 'Defra' for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs etc. This irritates me, I think these should read OPEC and DEFRA respectively, but how does everyone else feel? Is there an accepted style guide convention?
Treatment of abbreviations and superscript items in full capital case
In a similar vein, a major UK newspaper only capitalises the first letter of initialisms or acronyms, e.g. 'Opec' for the Oil Producing and Exporting Companies, 'Defra' for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs etc. This irritates me, I think these should read OPEC and DEFRA respectively, but how does everyone else feel? Is there an accepted style guide convention?