Updates

The Australian manual of style (AMOS) has been developed from the Australian manual of scientific style (AMOSS), which was released in 2016. All of the AMOSS content is in AMOS. Major updates are included in the table below.

Date	Chapter	Section	Change
12 February 2021	Editing	Grammar > Clauses and sentences	Amendment of the definitions of subject and object.
11 February 2021	Editing	Punctuation > Quotation marks > Short quotations	Amendment of advice on placement of punctuation relative to closing quote marks for direct speech
7 January 2021	Editing	Grammar > Common grammar questions > Making comparisons	Amendment of advice on use of compared with and compared to
7 January 2021	Editing	Grammar > Common grammar questions > Because and due to	Amendment of advice on use of because and due to
23 December 2020	Engaging		New chapter
	Writing		Content reorganised and expanded (including new sections on information architecture, using Word styles and templates, and writing about data and statistics)
	Writing		Content on accessibility moved to ‘Engaging’
	Writing	Citing other work	New section, incorporating previous and new content
	Subject areas		Scientific fields moved from ‘Editing’ to ‘Subject areas’ New subject areas added in fields other than science
	Editing		Minor style changes made throughout chapter Content expanded (including nonscientific examples)
	Editing	Grammar	New section
	Editing	Compound words	New section (content moved from ‘Punctuation’)
	Editing	Cross-references	New section, incorporating previous and new content
	Editing	Presenting titles	New section, incorporating previous and new content
	Editing	Numbers and units	Style changed from using a nonbreaking space in numbers with 5 or more digits to using a comma in numbers with 4 or more digits