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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

Beginning of Sentence, Title, Subtitle

Chapter:
Units of Measure
Author(s):

Phil B. Fontanarosa,

Stacy Christiansen

18.3.4 Beginning of Sentence, Title, Subtitle

A unit of measure that follows a number at the beginning of a sentence, title, or subtitle should not be abbreviated, even though the same unit of measure is abbreviated if it appears elsewhere in the same sentence. (See 19.2.1, Numbers and Percentages, Spelling Out Numbers, Beginning a Sentence, Title, Subtitle, or Heading; and 19.2.2, Numbers and Percentages, Spelling Out Numbers, Common Fractions.)