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A
B
C D E
F G
H I
J K L M
N O
P Q R
S T
U V
W X Y
Z
A
Abbreviations
Abbreviations
in tables and figures
Abstracts, references in
Acronyms
Accession number
Adjectives,
hyphenated
Affect,
effect
Affiliations
Age
designations
Alaskan native, Alaska native
American Indians, Native
Americans
Among, between
And, or
Appendixes
Articles in press
Assure, ensure, insure
Authors,
clearance procedures for CDC authors
Authorship
B
Bacteria
Based
on, on the basis of
Between, among
Biopsy
Black, African American
Blood factors
Brevity
British spelling
Burden
C
Capitalization
Captions and legends
Case, patient
CDC as author
CDC,
preferred usage
Cities
Clauses, restrictive
and nonrestrictive
Clearance procedures for CDC authors
Colon
Commas
Commercial sex workers,
prostitutes
Common tests
Commonly misspelled
words
Compare to, with
Compose, comprise
Confidence intervals, CI
Continual, continuous
Controls
Copyright
D
Dehumanizing
terms
Develop
Diagnose
Die, expire
Die of
Different from
Dissertations, theses as references
Dosage, dose
Due to, owing to
E
Effect, affect
e.g
and i.e
Eliminate, eradicate
em dashes
en dashes
Ensure, insure, assure
Epidemic, endemic
Epi Info
Equations
etc.
Etiology, cause
Expire, die
F
Feel,
believe
Fever, temperature
Few, little (fewer, less; fewest,
least)
Figures
and tables
Figures versus words
Footnote symbols, numbers,
letters, puncutation of
Footnotes, in tables and
figures
Former Soviet Union
Fractions
G
General
Information
Genes
Geographic Designations
Gram
H
Homosexual,
bisexual, gay
Hyphens
I
-ic
versus -ical
i.e. and e.g.
Immunize, vaccinate
In, among
Incidence, prevalence
Individual, person
Influenza season
Inject, inoculate
Injection, intravenous
drug user(s)
Instructions to authors
Insure, ensure, assure
Internet
citations
In vitro
Italics
J
Journal
names, in references
M
Male,
female
Mathematical
symbols (+, ‡, , =, <, >, , , ~.)
Molecular weight
Morbidity, morbidity rate
Mortality, mortality rate
(AMA)
N
Negative,
normal
Nonrestrictive and restrictive clauses
Numbered lists
Numbers
O
Offspring
-ology
On the basis of, based on
Or, and
Organization
as author
Orientation
Other capitalization preferences
Other common statistical
terms
Owing to, due to
P
Parameter
Parasitemia
Parenthesis and brackets
Periods
Patient
Percentages
Person, persons, people
Possessives
Preferred Usage
Prefixes
Present, present with
Preventative, preventive
Probability
Proper
nouns,
words
derived from
Punctuation
R
Ranges
Ratio
React, test
Redundant phrases
References
Resolve
Restrictive and nonrestrictive
clauses
Risk of, for, from
S
Sacrifice
Scientific
Nomenclature
Secondary sources
Semicolons
Serum, sera
Sex partners
Significant
SI units
Specific style issues
Specific designations
Spelling
Statistical terms
Subject, preferred usage
Subject-verb agreement
Suffixes
Symbols
T
Tables
and figures
Test, react
Time designations
Titer
Titles
Tracking
Trade names
U
Units
of measure
Units
of measure in tables
U.S. citizens
V
Vaccinate,
immunize
Varying, various
Verbs
Versus
Virgules
Virus designations
Viruses
W
Words
derived from proper nouns
Washington, D.C.
Y
Youth
in high-risk situations
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