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Additional Style Guides and Print Resources

For a more in-depth discussion of medical writing and editing issues, refer to other authoritative sources, including print versions of

• A Dictionary of Virology (Mahy)
• American Medical Association Manual of Style (AMA)
• ASM Style Manual (ASM)
• Chicago Manual of Style (CSM)
• Control of Communicable Diseases Manual (APHA)
• Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
• How To Report Statistics in Medicine (Lang)
• Index Medicus 
• International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria (1990 Revision), P.H.A. Sneath, editor, 1992, American Society for Microbiology
• Manual of Systematic Bacteriology (Bergey)
• Physicians Desk Reference
• Scientific Style and Format (Council of Science Editors [CSE])
• Stedman's Medical Dictionary
• Stein's Medical Abbreviations
• Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (UR)
• Virology (Fields)
• Virus taxonomy: classification and nomenclature of viruses: seventh report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. Van Regenmortel MHV, chairman. New York: Academic Press;2000
• Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary
• Webster's Third New International Dictionary (unabridged)
• Words Into Type (WIT)

Comments to the EID Editors

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This page posted January 29, 2009
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