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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

Editors and Translators

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

3.12.5 Editors and Translators

Names of editors, translators, translator-editors, or executive, consulting, and section editors are given as follows:

  1. 1. Plato. The Laws. Taylor EA, trans-ed. London, England: JM Dent & Sons Ltd; 1934:104-105.

[Plato is the author; Taylor is the translator-editor.]

  1. 2. Klaassen CD. Principles of toxicology and treatment of poisoning. In: Hardman JG, Limbird LE, eds. Gilman AG, consulting ed. Goodman and Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. 10th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Co; 2001:67-80.

[Klaassen is the author of a chapter in a book edited by Hardman and Limbird, for which Gilman was the consulting editor.]

In the following 4 examples, no authors are named. Each book has an editor or editors and is part of a series. Note: The name of the series, if any, is given in the final field. If the book has a number within a series, the number is also given in the final field (see example 6).

  1. 3. Villarreal FJ, ed. Interstitial Fibrosis in Heart Failure. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag; 2005. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine.

  2. 4. Sharpe VA, ed. Accountability: Patient Safety and Policy Reform. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press; 2004. Hastings Center Studies in Ethics.

  3. 5. Brune K, Handwerker HO, eds. Hyperalgesia: Molecular Mechanisms and Clinical Implications. Seattle, WA: IASP Press; 2004. Progress in Pain Research and Management; vol 30.

  4. 6. Balducci L, Extermann M, eds. Biological Basis of Geriatric Oncology. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag; 2005. Rosen ST, ed. Cancer Treatment and Research; vol 124.