General Editorial Guidelines (A–Z)
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- a.m.
- abbreviations and acronyms
- academic and administrative titles
- academic degrees and credentials
- academic departments
- addiction
- addresses
- adviser
- Affordable Care Act (ACA)
- African American
- ages
- Aggie ring
- Aggie Spirit
- alumnus, alumni, alumna, alumnae
- American Health Care Act (AHCA)
- ampersand
- and/or
- anesthesia, anesthetic
- animal models
- anniversary
- annual
- anti-
- apostrophes
- armed forces
- attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
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- canceled, canceling
- capitalization
- caregiver
- cellphone
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- centuries
- cesarean
- chair, chairman, chairwoman, chairperson
- check up, checkup
- class year
- clinician
- close-up
- Clostridium difficile (C-diff)
- co-author, co-director, co-worker
- colonia
- colons
- commas
- commencement
- composition titles
- congenital disability
- copayment, copay, coinsurance
- core values
- coronavirus, COVID-19
- course names
- credit hours
- CT scan
- curriculum
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- p.m.
- page numbers
- Pap test
- parentheses
- part time, part-time
- patient- and family-centered care
- patients
- payer
- phase I, phase II, phase III trial
- PhD
- phone numbers
- photo captions
- physician assistant (PA)
- physician vs. doctor
- positive emission tomography (PET) scan
- possessive form
- post-mortem
- post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- postdoctoral
- postgraduate
- postoperative
- preeclampsia
- preeminent
- preferred provider organization (PPO)
- prefixes
- premedical, premed
- premenstrual
- prenatal
- preoperative
- preventive
- principal investigator
- professor
- program
- promotora
- punctuation and type face
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