As I was arguing in a chat message, we should avoid abbreviations. I said the military, the police, the state in general loves abbreviations (at least here in Switzerland) where as newspapers, magazines and journals are always careful to introduce abbreviations. I decided to look it up for one of the journals I used to subscribe to, as a student: "Nature is an international journal covering all the sciences. Contributions should therefore be written clearly and simply so that they are accessible to readers in other disciplines and to readers for whom English is not their first language. Thus, technical jargon should be avoided as far as possible and clearly explained where its use is unavoidable." Nice!
I kept on reading… "TeX/LaTeX: If you have prepared your paper using TeX/LaTeX, we will need to convert this to Word after acceptance, before your paper can be typeset." 😭