For details on these commonly used acronyms in the development of TAPPI Standards and TIPs, please see the Standards Guidelines and the TIP Guidelines, or send your questions to standards@tappi.org.
| TIP | = | Technical Information Paper |
| Q&SMC | = | Quality and Standards Management Committee |
| SSIG | = | Standard-Specific Interest Group |
| SARG | = | Standards Advisory Review Group |
| WI | = | Work Item |
| WG | = | Working Group |
| WGC | = | Working Group Chair |
| om | = | Official Method |
| pm | = | Provisional Method |
| sp | = | Standard Practice |
| cm | = | Classical Method |
| ss | = | Standard Specification |
| sg | = | Standard Guideline |
| gl | = | Standard Glossary |
| wd | = | Withdrawn Standard |
| UM | = | Useful Method |