The Guardian style guide is the only one of the newspapers for which I could find an entry on this. https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-e

The Guardian style guide is the only one of the newspapers for which I could find an entry on this. https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-e https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-e It recommends dropping the dots. I know we were taught in school to treat them as abbreviations and therefore include the dots so I'm not sure where this new fashion comes from.