Comments on: Questions From Users of the Manual http://blog.amamanualofstyle.com/2011/05/20/questions-from-users-of-the-manual-2/ Official blog of the AMA Manual of Style Tue, 09 Apr 2013 06:05:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: amastyleinsider http://blog.amamanualofstyle.com/2011/05/20/questions-from-users-of-the-manual-2/#comment-43 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:32:24 +0000 http://blog.amamanualofstyle.com/?p=193#comment-43 The AMA Manual does not directly address the question of bracketing (or not bracketing) ellipses used in a quotation; however, in the section on ellipses (8.8), which contains a number of examples of omissions within a quotation, no brackets are used. So, our policy would generally be not to bracket ellipses added to quotations to indicate an omission.

However, if an author has used ellipses in his or her own writing, bracketing the ellipses introduced by the person quoting from this author, and omitting part of the quotation, would be important so that the reader would know that these were not the author’s ellipses but rather those of the writer quoting the author. The Chicago Manual, in section 13.56 on bracketed ellipses, describes this particular situation and provides advice on how to address it. In consulting Chicago on this point, I also learned about a punctuation mark unfamiliar to me: suspension points. A French cousin to ellipses. Read more about that in Chicago, section 13.35.

—Cheryl Iverson

]]> By: JR http://blog.amamanualofstyle.com/2011/05/20/questions-from-users-of-the-manual-2/#comment-31 Fri, 27 May 2011 14:05:41 +0000 http://blog.amamanualofstyle.com/?p=193#comment-31 What about ellipses added to a quote? The Chicago Manual of Style says not to add brackets around the added ellipses, the APA says add brackets…and the AMA says nothing, or ??

]]> By: amastyleinsider http://blog.amamanualofstyle.com/2011/05/20/questions-from-users-of-the-manual-2/#comment-28 Mon, 23 May 2011 15:19:12 +0000 http://blog.amamanualofstyle.com/?p=193#comment-28 Hi, you’re right that the sidebar and some other pages have “email.” I think that was a WordPress out-of-the-box thing that we just overlooked! I will see if it can be changed in the template. AMA style for “e-mail” definitely uses the hyphen, although my personal opinion is that the word will become “dehyphenized” in the very near future.

—Brenda Gregoline

]]> By: Michelle http://blog.amamanualofstyle.com/2011/05/20/questions-from-users-of-the-manual-2/#comment-26 Sat, 21 May 2011 20:37:33 +0000 http://blog.amamanualofstyle.com/?p=193#comment-26 Hi there,

The reply suggests that the AMA style is to hyphenate the abbreviation of electronic mail as ‘e-mail’, yet in several places on the web page, including this submission form, it appears as ‘email.’ Is the style of the AMA website intentionally different from the manual? Or am I misreading the reply? I tend to not use a hyphen in email, for purposes of brevity, but I’m interested in what is considered correct.

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