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Accepted Usage
Stephen J. Lurie and Margaret A. Winker
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Spell out numbers for generally accepted usage, such as idiomatic expressions. One frequently appears in running text without referring to a quantity per se and may appear awkward if expressed as a ...
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Beginning a Sentence, Title, Subtitle, or Heading
Stephen J. Lurie and Margaret A. Winker
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Use words for any number that begins a sentence, title, subtitle, or heading. However, it may be better to reword the sentence so that it does not begin with a number.Three hundred twenty-eight men ...
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Common Fractions
Stephen J. Lurie and Margaret A. Winker
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Common fractions are expressed with hyphenated words, whether the fraction is used as an adjective or a noun. Mixed fractions are typically expressed in numerals (see , Use of Numerals, Mixed ...
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One Used as a Pronoun
Stephen J. Lurie and Margaret A. Winker
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
The word one should be spelled out when used as a pronoun or noun.The investigators compared a new laboratory method with the standard one. These differences may be concealed if one looks only at the ...
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Ordinals
Stephen J. Lurie and Margaret A. Winker
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Ordinal numbers generally express order or rank, rather than a precise quantity. Because they usually address nontechnical aspects of the objects they modify, ordinals are often found in literary ...
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Spelling Out Numbers
Stephen J. Lurie and Margaret A. Winker
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Use words to express numbers that occur at the beginning of a sentence, title, subtitle, or heading; for common fractions; for accepted usage and numbers used as pronouns; for ordinals first through ...
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