AMA Style Guide : Main Body

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 This sample paper is formatted in AMA Style.

Your paper should:

• Include a page number on every page (typically in the upper right corner). Often, the author is included with the page number.
• Be double spaced
• Have 1-inch margins
• Be typed in 12-point Times font
• Indent paragraphs ½ inch

Many papers will use the Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion format. However, not all papers will fit this model. Use appropriate headings and subheadings when organizing your paper.

Headings

A consistent style and typeface should be used for head level of heading. Example: Main Heading, Subheading. 

Headings should reflect the logic and structure of your paper.

Example:

Introduction

Methods

Results

Discussion

Example Heading/Subheading:

Results

Definitions

The basic ideas of a “living-food” or “raw food” diets are consuming all or primarily uncooked foods. These diets are a subset of vegan diets consisting of fruit, berries, vegetables, mushrooms, nuts, seeds, legumes, and cereals.^2,4,7 Many variants of the raw food diet exist and there is no one definition.⁵ Some articles required that 40%-85% of an individual’s total dietary intake contain uncooked foods in order to be considered raw. High plant protein diets did include a small intake of meat products.^2,3,8