In my native language (Italian) there are convenient abbreviations for compare (cfr) and see or refer to (vd). Is there anything similar in English? Or should I just use the complete words see or refer to in these cases?
I am referring to something that I can use in an informal note, where citations and bibliography seem an overkill.
E.g:
The method they developed gave better results respect the traditional methods (cfr “Traditional methods for the task”)
The results for those experiments (vd paragraph “Those Experiments”) show a direct correlation between A and B.
Best Answer
In formal, and mostly older, academic texts in English you may sometimes see cf (compare) and vid (see), but they are not used elsewhere.