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Style Guide for Authors and Editors (page 6 of 6)

Other Resources

Comprehensive Style Guides and Other 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)

Internet Resources

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Acronym Finder
http://bioinformatics.org/textknowledge/acronym.php

Checklist of North American Birds
http://www.aou.org/checklist/index.php3

Encyclopaedia Britannica
http://www.Britannica.com  

The Galton Library: human gene names
http://www.gene.ucl.ac.uk

GPO's Copyright Law of United States; 252 pp
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/circ92.pdf

Index Medicus 
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lji.html

LBSN-List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature
http://www.bacterio.cict.fr/  

Mammal Species of the World (MSW)
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/msw/

Merriam-Webster Collegiate 10th dictionaries
http://www.m-w.com

Northern Light: good, all-purpose search engine for locating people and addresses, in particular http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/intro.htm  

Online thesaurus of geographic names
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/

Source of online classics including reference works for editors (Strunk, Fowler's) and 3rd edition of American Heritage Dictionary, 2000 edition of Columbia Encyclopedia, and 1996 edition of Roget's Thesaurus
www.bartleby.com  

Physicians Desk Reference
http://www.pdr.net

Stedman's Medical Dictionary
http://www.stedmans.com/

Uniform Requirements
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html

Virus taxonomy: classification and nomenclature of viruses: seventh report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ICTVdb/Ictv/index.htm