AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors is a style guide

Style guide

A style guide or style manual is a set of standards for the writing and design of documents, either for general use or for a specific publication, organization or field...

 by the editors of JAMA

Jama

Jama or JAMA may refer to:* Jama Software, a privately held company in Portland, Oregon* Journal of the American Medical Association, an international peer-reviewed general medical journal...

(Journal of the American Medical Association) and the Archives Journals, most recently published by Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

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. It specifies the writing and citation

Citation

Broadly, a citation is a reference to a published or unpublished source . More precisely, a citation is an abbreviated alphanumeric expression Broadly, a citation is a reference to a published or unpublished source (not always the original source). More precisely, a citation is an abbreviated...

 styles for use in scholarly publications in medicine

Medicine

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 internationally, including JAMA

Jama

Jama or JAMA may refer to:* Jama Software, a privately held company in Portland, Oregon* Journal of the American Medical Association, an international peer-reviewed general medical journal...

and the Archives Journals. It was first published in 1962, and its current edition, the 10th, came out in 2007. The AMA Manual of Style covers a breadth of topics for authors and editors in medicine and related health fields and includes 25 chapters:
Section 1. Preparing an Article for Publication -
1 Types of Articles,
2 Manuscript Preparation,
3 References,
4 Visual Presentation of Data,
5 Ethical and Legal Considerations,
6 Editorial Assessment and Processing;
Section 2. Style -
7. Grammar,
8. Punctuation,
9. Plurals,
10. Capitalization,
11. Correct and Preferred Usage,
12. Non-English Words, Phrases, and Accent Marks,
13. Medical Indexes;
Section 3. Terminology -
14. Abbreviations,
15. Nomenclature,
16. Eponyms,
17. Greek Letters;
Section 4. Measurement and Quantitation
18. Units of Measure,
19. Numbers and Percentages,
20. Study Design and Statistics,
21. Mathematical Composition;
Section 5. Technical Information -
22. Typography,
23. Manuscript Editing and Proofreading,
24. Glossary of Publishing Terms,
25. Resources.

The online edition also has monthly tips from the editors, quizzes, updates, and an SI unit conversion calculator.