Literature and Medicine Journal

Style Manual

Table of Contents
Introduction....................................................................................................................... 1
Overview of the Publishing Process .......................................................... 2
Outline of the Development Process....................................................... 3
Style Manual ..................................................................................................................... 4
Copyediting...................................................................................................................... 5
Punctuation ................................................................................................................... 6
Periods ................................................................................................................. 8
Commas ............................................................................................................... 9
Colons................................................................................................................. 12
Hyphens and Dashes .......................................................................................... 13
Parentheses ....................................................................................................... 18
Brackets .............................................................................................................. 19
Apostrophes ....................................................................................................... 20
Numbers...................................................................................................................... 21
Percentages and Decimal Fractions ................................................................... 22
Money ................................................................................................................ 23
Dates .................................................................................................................. 24
Abbreviations .............................................................................................................. 28
Document Consistency ............................................................................................... 33

Fact-checking ................................................................................................................ 35
Citation Style Sheet ................................................................................................... 37
General Guidelines for Composing Notes ..................................................... 38
Documenting Periodicals........................................................................................ 40
Journals ....................................................................................................................... 40
Newspapers ................................................................................................................ 42
Books ........................................................................................................................... 43
Interviews and Personal Communications ................................................................. 46

Notes and Bibliography ........................................................................................... 48

Appendix: Style Sheet............................................................................................ 52