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AMA Citation Style

From the 10th edition

Begin page numbers on title page. Only use one numbering system throughout, including appendices and other end material.

Use numerals instead of text for most numbers, except ordinals like “first” through “ninth; numbers used like pronouns (e.g., “one” or “one’s”); fractions; numbers that begin sentences, titles, or headings, numbers spelled out in quotations.

Drop punctuation for abbreviations like Rev, Corp, Dr, J Lab Clin Med, FDA, MD, Inc, 6 lb 4oz

Don’t cite unpublished works and personal communication like social media posts, email, or phone interviews. They are cited only in parenthesis in-text, not on the reference list

Block quotations are single-spaced with extra space before and after the quotation. No quotation marks are used. They are indented the same as a paragraph indentation. Use for more than 4 lines of quoted materialSome AMA writing

conventions

Sources are numbered in order of their appearance in the text and on the Reference page.

Superscript numerals in text at the end of the borrowed material indicates the source on the Reference Page.

Superscript numerals are placed outside periods and commas,1 and inside colons and semi-colons2; this is not intuitive.3

Authors’ names are as follows. Lastname AB. No periods, no spaces between initials.

Capitalize only the first word and proper nouns in the article titles. No quotation marks are used, unless title has internal quotation marks.

Duration of antibiotic therapy for early Lyme disease.

Date appears after title, not after author, as in APA

Italicize journals, and put issue numbers in parenthesis after the volume number.

The Journal of American Medicine 2000;109(9):481-488

No spaces between year, volume, number, page numbers. See example above.

General information

Of the respondents, 95% felt that discharge arrangements were adequately explained to them.4 Further examination of the data in this study revealed other significant discrepancies.4(275) Similar discrepancies were noted in the aforementioned studies by the 2 teams of researchers in Australia and New Zealand.2,3

Note: If a source is cited more than once, give the number of the original reference; then include the page number in parenthesis where the information was found in subsequent citations for that source.

In-text example

Book 1. Bates WH. The Bates Method for Better Eyesight Without Glasses. New

York: Henry Holt & Co; 1943. Journal article

2. Hu P, Reuben DB. Effects of managed care on the length of time that elderly patients spend with physicians during ambulatory visits. Med Care. 2002;40(7):606-613.

Journal article with more than 6 authors 3. Geller AC, Venna S, Prout M, et al. Should the skin cancer examination

be taught in medical school? Arch Dermetol. 2002;138(9):1201-1203. Electronic journal with doi

4. Gage BF, Fihn SD, White RH. Management and dosing of warfarin therapy. The American Journal of Medicine. 2000;109(6):481-488. doi: 10.1016/S0002-9343(00)00545-3

Electronic journal without doi 5. Aggleton JP. Understanding anterograde amnesia: disconnections and

hidden lesions. Q J Exp Psychol. 2008;61(10):1441-1471. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pbh&AN=341681845&site=ehost-live Accessed March 18, 2010

Web page 6. World Health Organization. Saving the future generation in Darfur.

World Health Organization. http://www.who.int/features/2007/child_health/en/ index.html. Published July 7, 2007. Accessed October 11, 2009.

Reference list examples

1. Jones AB. Modes of treatment: A traditional approach.  Phys Ther. 1999;80:20-26. 2. Smith CD. Transmission modes and treatment approaches. 3rd ed. Miami (FL): Florida University Presses; 1999. 3. Garcia EF, Zabihi GH. Transmission modes. New York (NY): NYU Press; 1999:308-338. 4. Mohamed IJ. Principles of treatment. In: Needles DD, Thread OE, editors. What it's all about? Putnam (NY): Happy Days Press; 1998:29-39. 5. Haskins AR, Himburg SP, George V, et al. Daring to be different: A less traditional style.  Clin mgmt in educ. 2000;26(1):9-19. 6. Abood S. Quality improvement initiative in nursing homes: the ANA acts in an advisory role. Am J Nurs [serial on the Internet]. 2002 Jun [cited 2002 Aug 12];102(6):[about 3 p.]. Available from: http://www.nursingworld.org/AJN/2002/june/Wawatch.htm7. Wyndham Mount Laurel. Meetings and Conferences Page. Available at: http://www.wyndhammountlaurel.com/meetings.html.  Accessed January 9, 2004.  

Sample reference list

Background and Examples for Utilizing AMA Citation Style Alissa Virginia Fial, MA, MLIS

avfial@utep.edu University of Texas at El Paso

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Sample title page

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