AMA Manual of Style - Stacy L. Christiansen, Cheryl Iverson 2020

Author Footnotes
Manuscript Preparation for Submission and Publication

The footnotes discussed below are intended for editors and production staff who manage placement of notes that may appear at the bottom of the first print or PDF page of major articles. On the journal’s website or for online-only journals, these are typically displayed in an Article Information section at the end of the article. Authors preparing manuscripts for submission may follow this general guidance as well and include this information on the title page(s) or Acknowledgment at the end of the manuscript (see 2.10, Acknowledgments). For authors preparing manuscripts, footnotes should not be used within the body of the article. Such explanatory material can usually be incorporated into the text parenthetically. Note: These footnotes are different from the superscript numbers used to indicate specific author affiliations. See 2.3.3, Author Affiliations.

2.3.1 Order of Footnotes for Print or PDF Page.

The preferred order of types of footnotes at the bottom of the first print/PDF page of an article in the JAMA Network journals is as follows (see 21.0, Editing, Proofreading, Tagging, and Display). Note: Not all articles will include all types. In addition, many journals, including the online-only journal JAMA Network Open, simply combine all footnotes and list them all at the end of the article.

■Author affiliations

■Information about members of a group (see 2.10.12, Group Information [Including List of Participants in a Group])

■Corresponding author contact information

Byline: John A. Doe, MD; Myrtle S. Coe, MD; Simon T. Foe, RN; for the XYZ Group

Footnotes:

Author Affiliations: Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas (Doe, Foe); Department of Internal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas (Coe).

A list of the XYZ Group authors and collaborators appears at the end of this article.

Corresponding Author: John A. Doe, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030 (jdoe@baylor.edu).

2.3.2 Death of Author(s).

The policy of using a “death dagger” (†) after the author’s name in the byline if an author has died before an article is published has been discontinued. If desired, this information can be included in the Acknowledgment section at the end of the article under the heading Additional Information. For example,

Additional Information: Coauthor John Doe, MD, died January 30, 2017.

2.3.3 Author Affiliations.

For manuscript submission, the affiliations of all authors should be provided on the title page(s) or in the Acknowledgment section at the end of the manuscript.

For publication, the institutions with which an author is professionally affiliated, including locations, are given in a footnote in the print or PDF version of an article (see 13.5, Cities, States, Counties, Territories, Possessions, Provinces, Countries). The authors’ last names are given parenthetically in the footnote following their respective institutions. On the journal’s website, affiliations or links to affiliations often appear just below the byline. Note that no honorary titles precede the surname (eg, Dr or Mr). If 2 or more authors share the same last name, their initials should be used in addition to the last name to allow readers to distinguish them.

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Byline: Sherry Kit Wa Chan, MRCPsych; Stephanie Wing Yan Chan, BSc; Herbert H. Pang, PhD; Kang K. Yan, MSc; Christy Lai Ming Hui, PhD; Wing Chung Chang, MRCPsych; Eric Yu Hai Chen, MD

Author Affiliations: Department of Psychiatry, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (S. K. W. Chan, S. W. Y. Chan, Hui, Chang, Chen); The State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (S. K. W. Chan, Chang, Chen); School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (Pang, Yan).

If 2 or more authors share the same initials and last name, then their full first and last names are included. Title and academic rank are not included in this footnote. If all authors in the byline are affiliated with the same department and institution, there is no need to include their names in the footnote.

List the affiliations in the order of the authors’ names as given in the byline.

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Byline: Anita Kohli, MD, MS; Ashton Shaffer, BA; Amy Sherman, MD; Shyam Kottilil, MD, PhD

Author Affiliations: Clinical Research Directorate/Clinical Monitoring Research Program, Leidos Biomedical Research Inc, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland (Kohli); Critical Care Medicine Department, Clinical Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland (Kohli); Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland (Shaffer, Sherman, Kottilil).

Online Version

Byline: Anita Kohli, MD, MS^1,2; Ashton Shaffer, BA³; Amy Sherman, MD³; Shyam Kottilil, MD, PhD³

Links to Affiliations:

¹Clinical Research Directorate/Clinical Monitoring Research Program, Leidos Biomedical Research Inc, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland

²Critical Care Medicine Department, Clinical Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

³Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

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Byline: Jerry A. Shields, MD; Renelle Pointdujour-Lim, MD; Sara E. Lally, MD; Ralph C. Eagle, MD; Carol L. Shields, MD

Author Affiliations: Ocular Oncology Service, Wills Eye Hospital, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Online Version

Byline: Jerry A. Shields, MD¹; Renelle Pointdujour-Lim, MD¹; Sara E. Lally, MD¹; Ralph C. Eagle, MD¹; Carol L. Shields, MD¹

Links to Affiliations:

¹Ocular Oncology Service, Wills Eye Hospital, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Byline: Jeremiah Brown Jr, MD; John H. Fingert; Chris M. Taylor; Max Lake, MD; Val C. Sheffield, MD, PhD; Edwin M. Stone, MD, PhD

Author Affiliations: Department of Ophthalmology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City (Brown, Fingert, Taylor, Stone); Private practice, Salina, Kansas (Lake); Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City (Sheffield).

Online Version

Byline: Jeremiah Brown Jr, MD¹; John H. Fingert¹; Chris M. Taylor¹; Max Lake, MD²; Val C. Sheffield, MD, PhD³; Edwin M. Stone, MD, PhD¹

Links to Affiliations:

¹Department of Ophthalmology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City

²Private practice, Salina, Kansas

³Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City

Single Author, Single Affiliation

If there is a single author and a single institution with which the author is affiliated, use the singular for the Author Affiliation head:

Byline: James R. Keane, MD

Author Affiliation: Department of Neurology, University of Southern California Medical School, Los Angeles.

Single Author, Multiple Affiliations

If an author is affiliated with multiple institutions or different departments at the same institution, this information should be indicated parenthetically in the print or PDF version and with unique superscript numbers in the online version.

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Byline: Carlos del Rio, MD; Wendy S. Armstrong, MD

Author Affiliations: Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia (del Rio); Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia (del Rio, Armstrong); Emory Center for AIDS Research, Atlanta, Georgia (del Rio, Armstrong).

Online Version

Byline: Carlos del Rio, MD^1,2,3; Wendy S. Armstrong, MD^2,3

Links to Affiliations:

¹Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia

²Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia

³Emory Center for AIDS Research, Atlanta, Georgia

The affiliation listed in the article, including departmental affiliation if appropriate, should reflect the author’s institutional affiliation at the time the work was done. If the author has since moved, the current affiliation also should be provided.

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Byline: Jonathan S. Lee, MD; Daniel L. Giesler, MD, PharmD; Walid F. Gellad, MD, MPH; Michael J. Fine, MD, MSc

Author Affiliations: Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Lee, Giesler, Gellad, Fine); Now with Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (Lee); Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Gellad, Fine).

Online Version

Byline: Jonathan S. Lee, MD^1,2; Daniel L. Giesler, MD, PharmD¹; Walid F. Gellad, MD, MPH^1,3; Michael J. Fine, MD, MSc^1,3

Links to Affiliations:

¹Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

²Now with Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

³Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Group Author Affiliations

For large groups, the name of the group may be given in the byline, and the affiliation footnote may refer the reader to the end of the article, a supplement online, or another publication for a complete listing of the participants, although preference is for these group members to be listed at the end of the article and tagged (or coded) as “authors” or “nonauthor collaborators” (see 2.2.4, Multiple Authors, Group Authors, and 2.10.12, Group Information [Including List of Participants in a Group]).