Abbreviations
Bruce McGregor and Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Include only abbreviations used in the text being indexed (ie, if a text uses only an expanded form, eg, National Institutes of Health, but never the abbreviation, do not include “NIH” in the index). ...
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Alphabetization and Sorting
Bruce McGregor and Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Alphabetization in indexes begins with the first letter of the term, eg, G period G phase G protein Commas precede letters in sorting order (examples from Thomas).cold, common cold agglutinin disease ...
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Capitalization of Main Entries
Bruce McGregor and Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Although main entries have traditionally featured initial capitals to distinguish them from subentries, The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, recommends lowercase, except when the entry term ...
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Consistency
Bruce McGregor and Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
A text may not be consistent in style for particular terms, eg, italics or hyphens, but the index should be stylistically consistent. If no style predominates for a given term used throughout the ...
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Controlled Vocabulary Indexing
Bruce McGregor and Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
In indexing journals offering broad coverage of general medicine and specialties and in indexing sets of periodicals issued by different publishers, indexers usually rely on the external authority of ...
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Cross-references
Bruce McGregor and Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Cross-references are valuable for terms that readers might seek in different alphabetic locations (last example from Thomas).cDNA. See under DNA DNA dsDNA. See under DNA mtDNA. See under DNA DNA, 5, ...
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Double-postings
Bruce McGregor and Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Listing the same citation under 2 or more entries, known as double-posting, is helpful when readers might be expected to look equally frequently in more than one place.benign prostatic hyperplasia ...
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Generic Cross-references
Bruce McGregor and Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
General classes, and specific members of a class, may require generic cross-references, ie, a cross-reference to a group of entries rather than to specific entries by name. The following examples are ...
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Indented vs Run-in Style
Bruce McGregor and Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
In indented style, main headings are followed by indented subheadings, each on its own line. In run-in style, subheadings appear continuously, not on separate lines, and are separated by ...
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Index Style
Bruce McGregor and Harriet S. Meyer
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
The style of terms in the index must be the same as the style in the text. | Alphabetization in indexes begins with the first letter of the term, eg, G period G phase G protein Commas precede letters ...
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