Style Sheet

Adam Kirby
Websters 11th Edition Dictionary
JEM Submission Style Guidelines
AMA format for References
ICMJE Style PDF

General Style
Serial comma
Numerals after 1-10 (written out)
Numbers for POD excersise
32 staff members
75 people
Numbers for Model Processing
20,000 people
340 hours, 315 seconds
3 days 22 hours and 32 minutes
Dates
Format: Month Day, Year
April 15, 2014
Passive Voice (Present voice unless talking specifically about the event)

Resources
FEMA
Core Capabilities
https://www.fema.gov/core-capabilities
32- not 31.
IS-139
The Full-Scale Exercise
Other
Health and Medical Exercise & Evaluation Program Exercise Guidance
How many steps?
AnyLogic
Event modeling
Agent based
System dynamics

Five Sections
1. Abstract
2. Introduction
a. Provide a context or background for the study (i.e., the nature of the problem and
its significance).
 b. State the specific purpose or research objective of, or hypothesis tested by, the
study or observation; the research objective is often more sharply focused when
stated as a question.
c. Both the main and secondary objectives should be made clear, and any pre-
specified subgroup analyses should be described.
d. Give only strictly pertinent references and do not include data or conclusions from
the work being reported.
3. Methods
a. Style for this section has parts that do not apply to it. Ive listed the most
important ones below.
b. Identify the methods, apparatus (give the manufacturers name and address in
parentheses), and procedures in sufficient detail to allow other workers to
reproduce the results.
c. Give references to established methods, including statistical methods (see below);
provide references and brief descriptions for methods that have been published
but are not well known; describe new or substantially modified methods, give
reasons for using them, and evaluate their limitations
d. Statistics
i. Describe statistical methods with enough detail to enable a knowledgeable
reader with access to the original data to verify the reported results. When
possible, quantify findings and present them with appropriate indicators of
measurement error or uncertainty (such as confidence intervals)
4. Results
5. Discussion

Abbreviations
Full when first mentioned- then abbreviated.
Format: Full name (Abbreviation)
Purdue University- Purdue
Ivy Tech Community College- Ivy Tech (Has not been stated before)
Point of Distribution- POD
Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA
Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program- HSEEP
Training and Exercise Plan Workshop- TEPW
After Action Report/Improvement Plan-AAR/IP

Figures and Tables

Figures should be titled and numbered consecutively according to the citation in the text
Legends listed separately

References
AMA format- [hard brackets]
 References are organized in AMA format; that is, they are to be cited numerically in the
text and in consecutive order, including the first three authors followed by et al., and
listed at the end of the article in the following format:
Journal articles 1. Mudd P, Smith JG, Allen AZ, et al.: High ideals and hard cases: The
evolution of opioid therapy for cancer pain. Hastings Cent Rep. 1982; 12(2):11-14.
Books 1. Bayles SP (ed.): Nutritional Supplements and Interactions with Analgesics. Boston:
GK Hall & Co., 1978.
Book chapters 1. Martin RJ, Post SG: Introducing alternative prescribing strategies. In Smith
J, Howard RP, and Donaldson P (eds.): The Oncology Management Handbook. Madison, WI:
Clearwater Press, 1998, pp. 310-334.
Web sites Health Care Financing Administration: HCFA Statistics at a glance. Available at:
www.hcfa/gov/stats/stahili.htm. Accessed December 27, 2002.

Words/Practices to Avoid
Avoid non-technical uses of technical terms in statistics,
such as random (which implies a randomizing device), normal, significant,
correlations, and sample.

Word List
actor number
after action- replaced by AAR/IP
AnyLogic
Objective line
Iteration line
Parameters list
community-based
failsafe
flowchart-based
Regional Hub Reception Centername followed by the authors?
OptQuest
triage
short-term
single-line funnel
wheel chair

Potential Problem Words

mass prophylaxis