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Frequently Asked QuestionsReference QuestionsQ. I would like to know how to cite your 10th edition in the style recommended by the 10th edition.A. Glad to oblige:Iverson C, Christiansen S, Flanagin A, et al. AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors. 10th ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press; 2007.Q. Section 3.10 advises beginning the subtitle of a journal article cited in a reference list with a lowercase letter. Is this true even if the title ends with a question mark?A. Yes. Here is an example, edited to style:Mayer AP, Files JA, Ko MG, Blair JE. Do socialized gender differences have a role in mentoring? academic advancement of women in medicine. Mayo Clin Proc. 2008;83(2):204-207.The same policy would apply if the title were to end with an exclamation point, although those are rare in scholarly article titles! Q. Section 3.12.5 describes how to cite books with editors and translators but there is no example showing how to cite a book with both an editor and an editor in chief. Should only the editor in chief be cited if one is given for a book?A. No, I would not exclude other editors' names if an editor in chief is given. You could extrapolate from the example in section 3.12.5 that shows how to cite an editor and a consulting editor. In that example, repeated below, just replace "consulting ed" by "ed in chief."Klaassen CD. Principles of toxicology and treatment of poisoning. In: Hardman JG, Limbird LE, eds. Gilman AG, consulting ed. Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. 10th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Co; 2001:67-80. Q. When you cite an online reference that will require a password to access the reference, should you include in the reference citation some indication that access is restricted?A. We wrestled with this question when preparing the current edition and decided against it because different users would have different access rights. "Press Release" vs "News Release"Q. The 10th edition refers to both "press release" and "news release." Are these used interchangeably or is there a distinction?A. We consider these interchangeable terms, but in the next edition we may use "news release" exclusively because information is distributed well beyond print media."Percent" vs "Percentage"Q. What is the difference between "percent" and "percentage"?A. We regard "percent" as being a unit (equivalent to "kilograms") and "percentage" as being a description of something that is measured in percent (equivalent to "weight"). As a rule of thumb, this would mean that "percent" (or the percent sign) would usually be used after a number: "In 10% of participants..." When discussing these values more broadly, "percentage" would be appropriate: "The percentages in Table 4 are from the study results in 2007."Placement of a Percentage With a Drug NameQ. When a percentage is associated with a drug, does it belong before the drug name or after it? The examples used in sections 15.4.9 and 15.4.10 seem to contradict each other.A. Typically, the percentage would follow the drug name, as described in section 15.4.10: metronidazole lotion, 0.75%. The example in section 15.4.9 is slightly different as it describes the percentages of the components in a single product: "an artificial tear product containing 0.42% hydroxyethylcellulose and 1.67% povidone.""Similar to" vs "Similar as"Q. Which is correct: "Qvar has similar systemic effects to those of fluticasone" or "Qvar has similar systemic effects as those of fluticasone"?A. The correct idiomatic form is "similar...to" not "similar...as," as with "identical...to" rather than "identical...as." I suspect the use of "as" in this construction comes from a related idiom: "the same as." You could also rephrase this to "Qvar and fluticasone have similar systemic effects." or "Qvar has systemic effects similar to those of fluticasone."PunctuationQ. Do you drop the periods in the abbreviation LLC (limited liability company)? I see that you recommend dropping the period after Co (company) and Inc (incorporated) and wondered if this would be treated similarly.A. Yes. Q. Your manual (p 342) recommends that a colon not be used after because or forms of the verb include. Does this recommendation include situations in which the word include precedes a bulleted list? A. Yes, it would be applicable whether the copy that follows the verb include precedes a bulleted list or run-in text. The key is that a verb should not be separated from its object or predicate nominative. For example, we would recommend the following:There are many treatments for skin irritation. The treatment prescribed may include creams, sprays, and gels.There are many treatments for skin irritation. The treatment prescribed may includecreamsspraysgelsAnother option would be the following: There are many treatments for skin irritation: creams, sprays, gels.Diacritical MarksQ. In medical writing, is it preferred to spell naive with or without the umlaut over the i?A. We would follow the latest edition of Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary. The 11th edition shows that both spellings are equally correct but, in such cases, to maintain uniformity among all the articles in our family of journals, we arbitrarily select the first spelling given: naive. Also, in the 10th edition of our manual (page 422), it indicates that “in general, English words in common usage should be spelled without the diacritical marks.”Second Printing of AMA Manual of StyleQ. I understand that the second printing of the AMA Manual of Style is now available and that many of the items in the list of Errata on the companion Web site () are corrected therein. How can I tell if I have the first or the second printing? Does the second printing have a different ISBN?A. Yes, the second printing was published in October 2007 and in it the majority of errata listed on the companion Web site are corrected. You can tell which printing you have by looking at the copyright page of the book (page iv). In the lower left corner of that page is a string of numbers, beginning, on the left, with 9. The number on the far right of that string will indicate the number of the printing. If the last number on the right is a 2, you have the second printing. The ISBN does not change with printings.Registration of Clinical TrialsQ. Your manual (pages 22 and 183) advises that clinical trials should be registered and that the URL of the registry and the identifying number should be published as a part of the manuscript. Is this still true if the clinical trial has been terminated?A. Yes, the identifier should be given even if the clinical trial has been terminated. Anyone who chooses to go to the URL provided will be able to read about the trial and will also see there that it has been terminated.Change in Footnote SymbolsQ. Does the change of footnote symbols from asterisk, dagger, etc to superscript lowercase letters apply not only to tables but also to the title page? A. No, this change does not apply to the title page. Typically, the only footnotes used on the title page would be the “death dagger” (see section 2.3.2) and the asterisk at the end of the byline if the byline is the name of the group, not all members of which qualify for authorship (see the bottom of page 15).Change in URL for HUGOQ. In your information on databases, the link you provide for HUGO no longer links. Do you have the new URL?A. Yes, since publication of the 10th edition of the manual, the URL for HUGO has changed. The new URL is . We have included this in a new batch of errata posted on the companion Web site in January 2008 and it will be corrected in the third printing.HyphenationQ. Would you hyphenate “white coat hypertension”? A. We would follow the latest edition of Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary. The 11th edition recommends inclusion of a hyphen: white-coat hypertension.TablesQ. If there is a column for P values in a table and if a P value “straddles” rows, eg, provides the P value for men vs women, how shown this be shown?A. There are several options, with option 1 being preferred: (1) Center the P value between the items it compares (eg, between the values for men and women) and consider the use of a side brace. (2) If only 2 items are being compared, list the P value on the line giving the overall category (eg, Sex). (3) Use footnotes to indicate the P value for items being compared (eg, use a superscript a next to the value for men and the value for women and indicate the P value for this comparison in a footnote labeled a).Q. If some of the confidence intervals given in a table column include negative values, how do you combine the minus sign and the hyphen that would normally be used in such a range in a table?A. With ranges that include a minus sign, use to to express the range, rather than a hyphen. Carry this style throughout the entire table, even for those values that do not include a minus sign.Q. How should columns with mixed units of measure indicate the unit of measure?A. In a table with mixed units throughout, use a table footnote for the most common unit of measure, eg, “Unless otherwise indicated, data are expressed as number (percentage).” and specify in the stub or column head only those units that are different. In a table with mixed units in a single column, use the most common unit in the column head and only provide another unit in the table cell for those entries that have a different unit of measure.Q. Because of the change from the 9th to the 10th edition in the way number and percentage are handled in running text (see page 832 in the 10th edition), should column headings in tables also be changed to read, for example, “No. of Girls (%)” rather than “No. (%) of Girls”?A. No. The style “No. (%) of Girls” is still an acceptable table column head as here both “number” and “percentage” apply to “of girls,” whereas in the example on page 832, the percentage is given as more of an aside to the numerator and denominator and hence follows: “Death occurred in 6 of 200 patients (3%).”PunctuationQ. If 2 footnote symbols appear next to each other in a table, should any punctuation be introduced between them? A.Yes. As with the policy for citation of a reference citation and a footnote symbol side by side (see page 95), add a comma. So, you might have superscript a,b; or superscript a,c-e.Reference CitationsQ. When citing the same work 2 or more times in a manuscript, do you continue to use the same superscript reference number, or do you use a different superscript reference number and relist the work multiple times in the reference list? A. It is our style to give a reference one number and to refer to it by that number every time it’s cited. This policy is not stated specifically in the manual and perhaps in the next edition it should be. In the current edition, page 44 discusses the situation in which an author might want to cite different (and specific) page numbers from the same reference. The style used is based on the assumption that a reference number “sticks” throughout a manuscript.SI UnitsQ. Has the policy on SI units changed? If so, how? A. Yes. These changes are addressed in detail in section 18.5.10. For laboratory values reported in JAMA and Archives Journals, factors for converting conventional units to SI units should be provided in the article. In text, the conversion factor should be given once, at first mention of the laboratory value, in parentheses following the convention unit. The blood glucose concentration of 126 mg/dL (to convert to millimoles per liter, multiply by 0.055) was used as a criterion for diagnosing diabetes.For articles in which several laboratory values are reported in the text, the conversion factors may be provided in a paragraph at the end of the “Methods” section. In tables and figures, this information can be provided in the footnote or legend.State NamesQ. Although the 10th edition recommends spelling out state names except in full addresses and the reference list (for location of publishers), I notice that you still show “DC” for District of Columbia. Is this an exception?A. Yes.Q. If a state’s full name is spelled out on first mention in running text, per the new style, what do you do when numerous cities in the same state are mentioned in an article? Should the state name be spelled out every time it is mentioned, every time a new city is mentioned, or should the 2-letter postal code be used after the first time the state name is spelled out in running text?A. The answer will depend on the context. If the article is about cities in a particular state, you might not need to include the state name with the individual cities at all, as it will be clear what the state is, eg, “6 cities in Massachusetts.” If the state name is spelled out at the first mention of each new city, it shouldn’t need to be repeated, unless there are instances in the manuscript of a city that exists in more than 1 state (eg, Springfield, Massachusetts, and Springfield, Illinois).SymbolsQ. I’ve been searching the 10th edition to see where the list of footnote symbols from the previous edition is given and I cannot find it Is that because the lowercase alphabet letters are now going to replace these symbols, as mentioned on page 91?A. Yes, almost right. We have changed our policy on using superscript symbols for table footnotes and are now using superscript lowercase letters. There are more of them and they are not so “odd.” However, we are continuing to use the old “footnote symbols” for bottom-of-the-page footnotes (see page 43). We only show 2 here…the asterisk and the dagger…because it is not likely that more would be needed (this is the only type of bottom-of-page footnotes that we use in our journals), but if you were to require more, the “old” list would still apply. Q. I haven’t been able to locate in the 10th edition the place where it says that the symbols “greater than” and “less than” should not be used in running text. (It’s at the top of page 256 in the ninth edition.) A. You are correct. We neglected to include that this time, but the policy is the same. The examples on page 399 illustrate this, but having the specific statement would be good. It’s a bit like the policy we have of reserving the use of the hyphen for ranges to within parentheses and in tables (and, of course, in references, for the page ranges) and not using it in running text (P values are another exception). It all has to do with “elegance.”TypefaceQ. What recommendations do you have for the preferred typeface of a punctuation mark that follows copy set in something other than roman type? A. Some specific recommendations are outlined below:If an entire sentence is set in a typeface other than roman (eg, italic, bold), any punctuation in that sentence would take the typeface of the rest of the sentence. If part of a sentence is set in a typeface other than roman, even if it's the end of the sentence, the ending punctuation would be roman. For heads, sideheads, entries in a glossary, the punctuation would follow that of the preceding word (so, in Correct and Preferred Usage of Common Words and Phrases, the commas between the word pairs are boldface, like the words). For parentheses and brackets, unless the entire sentence is set in a typeface other than roman, the parentheses or brackets are roman (see the example with "[sic]" on page 358).TypographyQ. How do you create a “thin space” in Word? A. In Word, use the shortcut to the ? em space character under Insert/Symbol/Special Characters. The Unicode value for the ? em space is 2005, and it’s in the General Punctuation section of any Unicode font. The 1/6 em space is also used as a thin space; the Unicode value for that is 2006, and it’s also in the General Punctuation section of any Unicode font.URLsQ. Is it necessary to include http:// in a URL? What about ? I like to avoid long strings for URLs and if it’s OK to shorten them, that’s what I’d like to do. A. 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Any subsequent activity to review or browse among the records retrieved, or to view an entry from the list, is not recorded as an additional search.Full-Content Units Reached From Browse: The number of entries reached from the browse menu. Please note, this is not relevant to all productsTurnaways: If a subscription is limited by concurrency, the number of turnaways will indicate how often the concurrency limit has been exceeded and users barred from the product.[Back to Top]16) Does AMA Manual of Style Online support meta-search software? Yes; the site can currently be accessed by meta-search software via HTTP request and supports the method="get" using a base URL of: directly by =x, where x is your search term. Separate search terms should separated with the + sign. For example, searching for collisions and culture would be added to the base URL as: =collisions+culture.[Back to Top] ................
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