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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about AMA Manual of Style Online
Using My Style
My Style offers all subscribers (individuals or those who access through an institution) the option to save their own:
• bookmarks for subsections of the Manual
• annotations on the text of the Manual
• searches for terms occurring in the Manual
• bookmarks for subsections of the Manual
• annotations on the text of the Manual
• searches for terms occurring in the Manual
Supported browsers
My Style works best in Firefox or Internet Explorer 8. Mac users, please note that the annotation software does not work in the Safari browser.
Registering
To use My Style, users must register to create their own My Style account.
To register for My Style, click on the ‘My Style Log-in’ link in the left-hand menu, and click on the ‘Register’ button. Hover your mouse over each text field for further hints on how to complete the registration process.
When you have registered, you should receive an email with your username and password.
To register for My Style, click on the ‘My Style Log-in’ link in the left-hand menu, and click on the ‘Register’ button. Hover your mouse over each text field for further hints on how to complete the registration process.
When you have registered, you should receive an email with your username and password.
What you will see
Once you have registered and are logged in to My Style, you will notice some differences in what you see on the site:
• On the right-hand side of all manual content pages there are places to create annotations.
• Against the heading of each subsection there is a bookmarking icon.
• On the search results page there is the option to save the search.
• On the right-hand side of all manual content pages there are places to create annotations.
• Against the heading of each subsection there is a bookmarking icon.
• On the search results page there is the option to save the search.
Creating bookmarks
When you want to bookmark a subsection of the manual contents, click on the blue bookmarking icon that appears next to the heading of the subsection.
Using bookmarks
You can view all your bookmarks, and click through directly to the bookmarked subsections, from the ‘Bookmarks’ section of My Style.
Deleting bookmarks
To remove a bookmark from a subsection, click on the red bookmark icon that appears next to the subsection heading. It will then revert to the blue icon, so the subsection is ready for bookmarking again.
You can also delete bookmarks from the ‘Bookmarks’ section of My Style, using the ‘x’ icons on the right-hand side of the screen.
You can also delete bookmarks from the ‘Bookmarks’ section of My Style, using the ‘x’ icons on the right-hand side of the screen.
Creating, amending and retrieving annotations
To create an annotation, first navigate to the subsection of the manual that you wish to annotate. Highlight the relevant text, by clicking and dragging your mouse, and then click on the ‘>’ arrow in the annotation field to the right of the paragraph. Make your annotation in the text box that appears, and click outside the text box to save it.
Click back into the text box if you would like to edit what you have written.
You will notice that for longer annotations a scroll bar appears while you are creating the annotation. When you click outside the text box the text of the annotation that appears will be truncated. Click back into the text box and use the scroll bar to read the whole annotation.
Annotations can be up to 500 characters in length, including all spaces and punctuation. The annotation field will stop accepting further key strokes once you have reached the 500 character limit.
To find your annotations, go to the ‘Annotations’ section of My Style. You can click through from the list there directly to the subsections that you have annotated.
Click back into the text box if you would like to edit what you have written.
You will notice that for longer annotations a scroll bar appears while you are creating the annotation. When you click outside the text box the text of the annotation that appears will be truncated. Click back into the text box and use the scroll bar to read the whole annotation.
Annotations can be up to 500 characters in length, including all spaces and punctuation. The annotation field will stop accepting further key strokes once you have reached the 500 character limit.
To find your annotations, go to the ‘Annotations’ section of My Style. You can click through from the list there directly to the subsections that you have annotated.
Deleting annotations
Use the ‘x’ at the top right-hand corner of the annotation if you would like to delete it, or, if you are in the My Style section of the site, use the ‘x’ icons on the right-hand side of the screen.
Searches
Once you are logged into My Style, you will be able to see all your recent searches in the ‘Search history’ section of My Style (without saving them).
Saving searches
If there is a recent search that you wish to save, in the My Style ‘Search history’ section, click on the ‘+’ sign beside it in the ‘Recent searches’ list, to move it into your list of saved searches. (You can also run searches from this list.)
You can also save searches from the search results page, by using the ‘Save search’ button.
Note that the ‘Saved searches’ list has a maximum of fifteen searches. When you ask to save a sixteenth search you will see a dialogue box warning you that if you continue with saving it, you will overwrite the oldest of your fifteen searches already saved. You can select ‘yes’ if you are happy to do that, or ‘cancel’ if you would prefer either not to save the search, or return to your list of saved searches to select a different search to delete. You can then promote your recent search to the saved search list.
You can also save searches from the search results page, by using the ‘Save search’ button.
Note that the ‘Saved searches’ list has a maximum of fifteen searches. When you ask to save a sixteenth search you will see a dialogue box warning you that if you continue with saving it, you will overwrite the oldest of your fifteen searches already saved. You can select ‘yes’ if you are happy to do that, or ‘cancel’ if you would prefer either not to save the search, or return to your list of saved searches to select a different search to delete. You can then promote your recent search to the saved search list.
Deleting saved searches
If you want to delete a saved search, click on the ‘X’ next to it in the saved searches list.
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