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The
AMA Manual of Style, 11th edition, is a must-have guide for those seeking to publish research findings and anyone involved in medical, health, or scientific writing and publishing. The manual offers guidance on nuts-and-bolts topics including punctuation, capitalization, and grammar. It also provides recommendations on how to navigate the dilemmas that authors, researchers and their institutions, medical editors and publishers, writers, and members of the news media who cover scientific research confront on a daily basis. Written by an expert committee of JAMA Network editors, this 11th edition thoroughly covers ethical and legal issues, authorship, conflicts of interest, scientific misconduct, and intellectual property, in addition to preparation of articles for publication, style, terminology, measurement, and quantification.
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List of contents
- Foreword by Howard Bauchner
- Chapter 1. Types of Articles
- Chapter 2. Manuscript Preparation for Submission and Publication
- Chapter 3. References
- Chapter 4. Tables, Figures, and Multimedia
- Chapter 5. Ethical and Legal Considerations
- Chapter 6. Editorial Assessment and Processing
- Chapter 7. Grammar
- Chapter 8. Punctuation
- Chapter 9. Plurals
- Chapter 10. Capitalization
- Chapter 11. Correct and Preferred Usage.
- Chapter 12. Non-English Words, Phrases, and Accent Marks
- Chapter 13. Abbreviations
- Chapter 14. Nomenclature.
- Chapter 15. Eponyms
- Chapter 16. Greek Letters
- Chapter 17. Units of Measure
- Chapter 18. Numbers and Percentages
- Chapter 19. Study Design and Statistics
- Chapter 20. Mathematical Composition
- Chapter 21. Editing, Proofreading, Tagging, and Display
- Chapter 22. Publishing Terms
- Chapter 23. Resources
About the author
The AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors is authored by a committee of JAMA Network editors, chaired by Stacy Christiansen. The JAMA Network family of journals includes JAMA, an international peer-reviewed general medical journal published continuously since 1883, JAMA Network specialty journals, and JAMA Network Open.
