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AMA Manual of Style (10th edition 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

One Used as a Pronoun

Chapter:
Numbers and Percentages
Author(s):

Stephen J. Lurie,

Margaret A. Winker

19.2.3 One Used as a Pronoun

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 total group.

William James uses the idea of the one and the many as the great challenge of the philosophical mind.