[bloak]

Of course some style guides would tell you not to put a dot after "Dr" because "r" is the last letter of "Doctor". Similarly, the abbreviation of "Saint" would be "St", while the abbreviation of "Street" would be "St.", according to those style guides.

Meanwhile the GB military style guide says never to use a dot after any abbreviation, I think.

Also, the style guides I'm familiar with prescribe "H. G. Wells", rather than "H.G. Wells", but "H.G.W." if you're abbreviating all of the words.

None of this is of much interest to anyone who isn't an editor but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

[Pxtl]

> "H. G. Wells",

Right. That's probably the most common historical form, and is a good example of how the punctuation for sentence-ends and abbreviations is often the same - period and then single-space.