The AMA Manual of Style will give you everything you need to produce well-organised and clear manuscripts.
It is a must-have guide for anyone involved in medical and scientific publishing.
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What is it?
The AMA Manual of Style is a comprehensive style guide created by the American Medical Association and is widely used by hundreds of scientific journals. Their style is known for clarity and simplicity, which is important for writing on complex topics, and can help you achieve this in your own writing. Many biomedical journals ask authors to use AMA style in their instructions for authors when preparing manuscripts.
It covers all aspects of writing an article, from how to correctly use punctuation, capitals and abbreviations to what information should be included.
How will it benefit me?
Clear writing is important not only when preparing a manuscript for publication, but whenever you are trying for write information for other people.
It can be used as a reference for the correct use of punctuation, grammar, abbreviations and more.
It also contains a lot of useful information about common study designs and how they should be reported.