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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

Boldface

Chapter:
Typography
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

22.5.3 Boldface

A general scheme of heads and side heads may call for the use of boldface type for first- and second-level heads and for first-level side heads in the text, although heading styles and formats vary among journals (see also 2.8, Manuscript Preparation, Parts of a Manuscript, Headings, Subheadings, and Side Headings). For example:

METHODS (level 1 head, flush left, bold caps)

Statistical Analysis (level 2 head, bold caps and lowercase)

Clustering Data.—(level 3 head or first-level side head, paragraph indent, run into the text, bold caps and lowercase).

Boldface may also be used in text to call out references to figures or tables.

Demographic data for the participants in the study are shown in Table 1.