Index
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
P
Page numbers followed by t indicate a table. Page numbers followed by f indicate a figure. Page numbers followed by App indicate an appendix.
- paragraph mark 5.5.4
- parentheses
- alternate names 5.3.6
- general uses 5.3.6.1
- specialized uses 5.3.6.2
- Participation Reports (Crossref) 33.4.8, 33.4f
- patents 29.4.7
- pedon descriptions
- horizon designations 25.3t, 25.7.1.2
- morphological properties 25.2t, 25.7.1.3
- overview 25.1t, 25.7.1
- use of 25.7.1.1
- peer review
- about 1.2
- anonymity and 2.6, 2.6.2
- artificial intelligence tools to aid 33.12.4
- editors and 2.3.6
- journal article structure 1.2
- role in journals 27.3.1.1
- peer reviewers
- authorship disputes and 2.8.3
- citation omissions 2.3.7
- competing interests and 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3
- duplicate/divided publication 2.4.3
- duplicate submission and 2.7.3
- ethical responsibilities 2.1, 2.2.5, 2.3.7
- recusal and 2.2.6
- review process and 2.6.2, 2.6.3
- peptide hormones 17.13.11
- peptides
- modification of named peptides 17.13.2.6
- overview 17.13.2.2
- sequence convention for 1-letter symbols 17.13.2.4
- sequence convention for 3-letter symbols 17.13.2.3
- period (punctuation)
- abbreviations 11.2
- chemical nomenclature 5.2.1.2
- as decimal point 5.2.1.2
- general use 5.2.1.1
- hierarchical divisions in numbers 5.2.1.2
- on-the-line 5.2.1.2
- ordered lists 5.2.1.1
- raised 5.2.1.3
- in end references 5.2.1.2
- in URLs 5.2.1.1
- persistent uniform resource locators (PURLs) 33.10.2
- personal names
- academic degrees 8.1.4, 8.2t
- author name conventions 8.1.2, 8.1t
- capitalization 9.4.1
- credentials 8.1.4, 8.2t
- diacritics 5.4.6
- end reference punctuation 5.3.3.5, 11.2
- formats by context: in bylines 8.1.1.1; in end references 8.1.1.4; in text of nonresearch article 8.1.1.3; in text of research article 8.1.1.2
- honorific titles 8.1.4
- military titles 8.1.5
- Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) 8.1.2
- plural formation 6.4.2
- responsibility to ensure correct 8.1
- retroactive name changes 8.1.6
- suffixes 5.3.3.4, 8.1.3
- phosphorus-containing compounds 17.13.12
- physiology see animals; humans; plants
- pigs: blood groups of 23.4.3
- pilcrow (paragraph mark) 5.5.4
- plagiarism
- artificial intelligence programs to detect 2.3.6, 33.12, 33.4.6
- authors and 2.3.5
- copyright infringement 2.3.4, 3.3.5
- editors and 2.3.6
- types of 2.3.3
- planets 26.4.1
- plants
- anatomy and physiology 23.1t, 23.2, 23.2t
- disease names 24.1
- genetic nomenclature: alfalfa 21.14.5.1; Arabidopsis thaliana 21.14.3, 21.17t; barley 21.14.2.1; cereals 21.13–16t, 21.14.2; cotton 21.14.7.1; crucifers 21.14.3; cucurbits 21.12t, 21.14.4, 21.18t; gene families 21.14.1; general guidelines 21.11t, 21.12t, 21.14; legumes 21.14.5, 21.19–20t; lettuce 21.14.7.2; maize (corn) 21.13t, 21.14.2.2; oat 21.14.2.3, 21.14t; onion 21.14.7.3; pea 21.14.5.2, 21.19t; pepper 21.14.6.1; rice 21.14.2.4, 21.15t; rye 21.14.2.5; solanaceous plants 21.14.6, 21.21t; soybean 21.14.5.3, 21.20t; tomato 21.14.6.2, 21.21t; wheat 21.6t, 21.14.2.6
- plant taxa: authors of 22.4.1.1; cultivated plants 22.4.1.5; hybrids/nothotaxa 22.4.1.4; infrageneric/infraspecific 22.4.1.1.4, 22.4.1.2; punctuation 6.2, 9.4.5; names of families/higher taxa 22.4.1.3; names of 22.4.1; transfer of species to another genus 22.4.1.1.1; vernacular names 22.4.1.6
- plurals of common derived from scientific names 6.4.10
- quotation marks and 5.3.4.2
- taxonomic system governing: binomial system for species names 22.2.2.1, 22.2.2.3, 22.2.2.4, 22.2.2.5; commonalities across systems 22.2; grammar of Latin names 22.2.2.9; higher taxonomic ranks 22.2.1; monomials 22.2.2.2; nomenclatural codes 22.3; nomenclatural types 22.2.2.8; overview 22.1; validity of names 22.2.2.7; vernacular names 22.2.3
- vernacular names 9.4.5, 10.1.3
- plural formation
- abbreviations 11.1.3
- common names derived from scientific names 6.4.10
- compound word and terms 6.4.9
- endings from non-English languages 6.3t, 6.4.5
- general principles 6.4.1
- genus names 22.2.2.5
- irregular forms 6.4.3
- Latin and 7.2.1.2
- letters 6.4.7
- nouns with 2 plural forms 6.4.6
- nouns with one form 6.4.4
- numbers 6.4.7
- proper nouns 6.4.2
- units of measurement 6.4.8
- words derived from other languages 7.2.1.2
- podcasts 29.4.14.1, 33.6.2
- polypeptides
- modification of named peptides 17.13.2.6
- overview 17.13.2.2
- sequence convention for 1-letter symbols 17.13.2.4
- sequence convention for 3-letter symbols 17.13.2.3
- possessive formation
- abbreviations 11.1.4
- compound expressions 6.5.5
- eponymic terms 6.5.6
- expressions of duration 6.5.9
- general principles 6.5.1
- plural nouns 6.5.3
- pronouns 6.5.4
- proper names set in italic type 6.5.8
- singular nouns ending in “s” 6.5.2
- predatory journals 2.2.1
- prefixes
- chemical nomenclature: cyclitols 17.13.6; style conventions 17.1t, 17.3.2; substitutive nomenclature 17.2t, 17.3t, 17.4t, 17.5t, 17.6, 17.6t
- chemical nomenclature carotenoids 17.13.5
- index alphabetization and 30.3.1.2
- natural products 17.13.1
- stereochemical nomenclature 17.11.1.2, 17.12t
- prenols 17.13.13
- preprint servers 2.6.1, 33.8
- presentations: review process and 2.6.1
- primary scientific literature 2.2.1
- prime symbols 5.4.5
- profit: competing interests and 2.5
- prokaryotes
- prokaryotic taxa: authors of 22.6.2; conventions for 22.6, 22.6.1; infraspecific designations 22.6.6; nomenclatural types 22.6.4; organisms that cannot be cultured 22.6.5; vernacular names 22.6.3
- taxonomic system governing: binomial system for species names 22.2.2.1, 22.2.2.3, 22.2.2.4, 22.2.2.5; commonalities across systems 22.2; grammar of Latin names 22.2.2.9; higher taxonomic ranks 22.2.1; nomenclatural codes 22.3; nomenclatural types 22.2.2.8; overview 22.1; validity of names 22.2.2.7; vernacular names 22.2.3
- pronouns 6.5.4, 7.4.2
- proofs
- alignment 32.2.1.3
- annotating PDF proofs 32.1f, 32.2f, 32.3
- checking process: accuracy 32.2.1.2; author responsibilities 32.2.1.1; figures 32.2.2
- format for 32.1
- marking paper proofs 32.1t, 32.3f, 32.4
- peer review and additions after 32.2.1.1
- return of 32.5
- supplementary material 32.2.3
- typography 32.2.1.3
- proper nouns, capitalization of 9.4.1
- proportions see ratios
- prostaglandins 17.13.14
- proteins
- abbreviated sequences 17.13.15.4
- defining 17.13.15
- designations based on gene names 17.13.15.3
- designations based on molecular weight 17.13.15.2
- designations based on open reading frames 17.13.15.1
- fish 21.15.3.1, 21.26t
- public domain 2.3.4
- Public Land Survey System 25.9
- PubMed Central 2.2.3, 33.1.2, 33.10.3.1
- PubReader 33.3.5
- punctuation marks
- abbreviations 11.2
- American vs British use 5.3.4, 5.3.5
- angle brackets 5.3.9
- around ellipses 10.3
- braces 5.3.8
- comma: general uses 5.3.3.2; incorrect uses 5.3.3.4; optional uses 5.3.3.3; serial comma 5.3.3.1; specialized uses 5.3.3.5
- dashes: American vs British use 5.3.5; em dash 5.3.5.2; en dash 5.3.5.1; three-em dash 5.3.5.4; two-em dash 5.3.5.3
- exclamation mark 5.2.3
- intrasentence: colon 5.3.1; quotation marks 5.3.4; semicolon 5.3.2
- latitude and longitude 14.2.1
- line relation marks: brace 5.5.1; ditto marks 5.5.2; dots as leaders 5.5.3; paragraph mark 5.5.4
- list of 5.1t
- mathematical expressions 12.4.3
- in non-English languages 5.6
- overview of 5.1
- parentheses 5.3.6
- period: as decimal point 5.2.1.2; general use 5.2.1.1; hierarchical divisions in numbers 5.2.1.2; on-the-line 5.2.1.2; ordered lists 5.2.1.1; in end references 5.2.1.2; in URLs 5.2.1.1
- question marks 5.2.2
- quotation marks: American vs British use 5.3.4, 10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.2.3; in block quotations 10.2.2; double 5.3.4.1; in run-in quotations 10.2.1; single 5.3.4.2; thin space and 5.3.4.2; titles of works 10.1.1.1
- quotation marks in relation to 10.2.3
- square brackets: alternate names 5.3.7; general uses 5.3.7.1; specialized uses 5.3.7.2
- term/word marks: ampersand 5.4.8; apostrophe 5.4.4; asterisk 5.4.7; “at” symbol 5.4.9; diacritics 4.2t, 5.4.6; hash mark 5.4.10; hyphen 5.4.1; prime symbol 5.4.5; slash 5.4.2; vertical bar 5.4.3
- types of 5.1t
- vinculum 5.3.9
- P values 12.5.2, 12.5.3
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