Vocabulary

Sentence case

Sentence case is the conventional way of using capital letters in a sentence. That is, you only capitalise the first letter of the first word – like you would in a sentence. Proper nouns (including abbreviations, gene names, journal titles, scientific databases, etc.) have initial capitals as well.

Examples:
The cat sat on the mat.
London is a capital of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Title case

Title case is the conventional way of using capital letters in a sentence. That is, you capitalise all principal words. Articles, conjunctions, and prepositions do not get capital letters unless they start the title.

Examples:
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Seven Habits of Effective People.

Plain text
“Normal” text which does not have any special text formatting (i.e. it has default font, size and is not styled into bold or italics).

Mononym
Person who has only last name (no first name or middle name(s)).

Group authorship

Group Authorship is a large numbers of investigators working under a single group name. Group-author articles involve the following parties: the overall group, members of the group who take responsibility for authorship of the article (named individual authors), and members of the group who do not take responsibility for authorship of the article but have contributed to the work that led to the article (nonauthor group members).

Examples:
Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network
North Central Cancer Treatment Group Study N0177

En dash

The en dash (–) is slightly wider than the hyphen (-) but narrower than the em dash (—). The typical computer keyboard lacks a dedicated key for the en dash, though most word processors provide a means for its insertion.


How to check whether term, keyword, etc is in correct case?
  1. Search article text for the term in question. Most likely you will find a few instances, which will give you understanding regarding correct capitalization. If this is not the case, check next points.
  2. Search PubMed site for the term in question.
  3. Search Google for the term in question.

Optional sections for Editorials
There are optional sections for Editorials that can appear after Keywords section and before Copyright section in this order: Abbreviations, Acknowledgments, Conflicts of Interest and Funding.