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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

Special or Theme Issue

Chapter:
References
Author(s):

Cheryl Iverson,

Stacy Christiansen,

Annette Flanagin,

Phil B. Fontanarosa,

Richard M. Glass,

Brenda Gregoline,

Stephen J. Lurie,

Harriet S. Meyer,

Margaret A. Winker,

Roxanne K. Young

3.11.7 Special or Theme Issue

The NLM Recommended Formats6 defines a special or theme issue as follows: “Special issues are frequently published to present the papers from conferences.… They may also be published to commemorate a specific event or to bring together papers on a specific subject.” JAMA and the Archives Journals refer to these as theme issues. References to the complete contents of a special or theme issue of a journal should be cited as follows:

  1. 1. Flanagin A, Winker MA, eds. Global health. JAMA. 2004;291(21, theme issue):2511-2664.

  2. 2. Blodi BA, Ferris FL III, guest eds. Blindness. Arch Ophthalmol. 2004;122(4, theme issue):437-676.

Special or theme issues may also be published as supplements (see 3.11.8, Supplements, for the recommended style for these).