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AMA Manual of Style (10th ed.) : A Guide for Authors and Editors

AMA Manual of Style Committee

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Print Publication Date:
Mar 2007
Print ISBN-13:
9780195176339
Published to AMA Manual of Style:
Apr 2009
DOI:
10.1093/jama/9780195176339.001.0001
© American Medical Association
Contents

Organisms

Chapter:
Capitalization
Author(s):

Brenda Gregoline

10.3.6 Organisms

Capitalize the formal name of a genus when used in the singular, with or without a species name. Capitalize formal genus names but not traditional plural generic designations (eg, streptococci) or derived adjectives (streptococcal) (see also 9.4, Plurals, Microorganisms). Do not capitalize the name of a species, variety, or subspecies. Do capitalize phylum, class, order, or family (see 15.14, Nomenclature, Organisms and Pathogens). For capitalization of virus names, see 15.14.3, Nomenclature, Organisms and Pathogens, Virus and Prion Nomenclature.