Research Guides: How to Cite Your Resources: AMA style

AMA style books

Cite Right, Third Edition by Charles Lipson Cite Right is the perfect guide for anyone who needs to learn a new citation style or who needs an easy reference to Chicago, MLA, APA, AMA, and other styles. Each chapter serves as a quick guide that introduces the basics of a style, explains who might use it, and then presents an abundance of examples. This edition includes updates reflecting the most recent editions of The Chicago Manual of Style and the MLA Handbook. With this book, students and researchers can move smoothly among styles with the confidence they are getting it right.
Publication Date: 2018
AMA MANUAL of STYLE, 11th EDITION
Publication Date: 2020

Electronic manual for AMA style

AMA Style Purdue OWL These resources provide guidance on how to cite sources using American Medical Association (AMA) Style, 10th Ed., including examples for print and electronic sources.

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AMA Style basics

The style recommended by the American Medical Association (AMA) is often used in biomedical research, medicine, nursing, dentistry and some related fields of biology.

In the AMA style, references to a work or parts of a work inside the text of a paper take the form of numbered citations. Only the number appears in the text itself. The citations are listed at the end of the paper in the order that they appear in the text, not alphabetical order.

Authors are listed by there last names and first name initial only - example Drazner, MH

Journal titles should be abbreviated - example J Am Med Dir Assoc. To find the standard abbreviations, see box below.

AMA has accepted the use of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) in citations. These are used in place of URLs. When citing references with DOIs, you do not need to include the date when an item was accessed.

AMA Standards for journal abbreviations

AMA standards for journal abbrevations

Common examples of AMA Style

Journal articles

Van Gijn J, Kerr RS, Rinkel GJE. Subarachnoid haemorrhage. Lancet. 2007;369(9558):306-318.

Sehgal S, Drazner MH. Left ventricular geometry: does shape matter? Am Heart J. 2007;153(2):153-155.

Newspaper articles

Overbye D. A philanthropist of science seeks to be its next Nobel. New York Times. April 19, 2005:D1, D4.

Books

Hill, J, Courtenay, M. Prescribing in Diabetes. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press; 2008.

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary. 31st ed. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2006.

Website

Interim guidance for 2009 H₁N₁flu (swine flu): taking care of a sick person in your home. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.cdc.gov/ H₁N₁flu/guidance_homecare.htm. Published October 23, 2009. Accessed November 9, 2009.

Library Database

There is no such category in AMA citation style. An article retrieved from a library database should be cited as a print article if it exists in that format and is equivalent to the full-text article being used.