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COPHS Citation Guide

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AMA Manual of Style by The Jama Network Editors The AMA Manual of Style is a must-have resource for anyone involved in medical, health, and scientific publishing. Written by an expert committee of JAMA Network editors, this latest edition addresses issues that face authors, editors, and publishers in the digital age. Extensive updates areincluded in the References chapter, with examples of how to cite digital publications, preprints, databases, data repositories, podcasts, apps and interactive games, and social media. Full-color examples grace the chapter on data display, with newer types of graphic presentations and updatedguidance on formatting tables and figures. The manual thoroughly covers ethical and legal issues such as authorship, conflicts of interest, scientific misconduct, intellectual property, open access and public access, and corrections. The Usage chapter has been revised to bring the manual up-to-dateon word choice, especially in writing about individuals with diseases or conditions and from various socioeconomic, racial/ethnic, and sexual orientation populations.Specific nomenclature entries in many disciplines are presented to guide users in issues of diction, formatting, and preferred terminology. Guidance on numbers, SI units, and math has been updated, and the section on statistics and study design has undergone a major expansion. In sum, the answer tonearly any issue facing a writer or editor in medicine, health care, and related disciplines can be found in the 11th edition of the AMA Manual of Style.
ISBN: 9780190246556
Publication Date: 2020-03-02

Medical and Scientific Style and Usage Resources
AMA-recommended resources to improve your medical and scientific writing style.
WAME Publication Ethics Policies for Medical Journals
Recommendations of the World Association of Medical Editors on ethics policies for medical writing and publishing.

General Guidelines

References & General Rules:

Each reference should be cited in consecutive numerical order by means of superscript Arabic numerals in the order that they are used in the text.
Use caution when referencing the internet. Many web sites are not appropriate/credible sources. Use only the highest quality sites.
When listing author names, use the author’s surname followed by initials, without periods.
Be as specific as possible
- Do not give a generic reference to Pubmed, Iowa, EBSCO, Science Direct, etc. Always provide the citation for the specific journal article.
- When possible, reference a specific monograph within an on-line database (as opposed to the entire database), or a specific chapter within a book (as opposed to the entire book).

In-Text Citation

In general, references should be listed as superscripts at the end of sentences or phrases.
Citations should be placed outside periods or commas, but inside colons or semicolons.
Do not place spaces between punctuation and citations or between the citations themselves.

Capitalization Rules:

Journal articles, chapter titles in books, title of specific items in websites, video titles, etc.: Capitalize only the first letter of the first word in a title and subtitle. Exceptions: Proper nouns, abbreviations that are ordinarily capitalized (such as DNA), and (genus) names of organisms may also be capitalized in the title/subtitle.
All the main words of a Journal Name or Book Title are capitalized and italicized

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