AMA Manual of Style
- AMA Manual of Style Online This link opens in a new window
The AMA (American Medical Association) Manual of Style, 11th ed. is a must-have guide for writing and publishing research in the medical, health, or scientific fields. Offers guidance on nuts-and-bolts of the style from punctuation to formatting, along with how to navigate dilemmas from ethical to legal that researchers encounter. The online manual is fully searchable and enriched by a variety of online features:
style quizzes, which allow users to test their knowledge.
SI conversion calculator, which allows quick conversion of units of measure.
- AMA Purdue OWL
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University provides citation instructions and examples.
Install EndNote
EndNote Packet
- EndNote 20 Install VideoPC (Windows)
Adding Citation Styles:
Visit this website to download the new AMA 11th Style.
After you download the file, open it. It will open in EndNote. Go up to File -> Save As -> Name the file AMA 11th
AMA at a glance
The American Medical Association (AMA) Style is the Preferred style for the medical community.
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11th edition is the most recent.
Examples:
If citing more than one reference at the same point, separate the numbers with commas and no spaces between.
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As reported previously,1,3–8 The derived data were as follows3,4
…and 18 patients.3 |
- Use author’s last name and initials of first name and middle name (if available).
- If more than six authors, list the first three followed by et al.
- Use journal abbreviations from PubMed.
- Do not make up your own journal title abbreviation!
- Use the DOI instead of a URL.
- DOI – digital object identifier
See "Creating an AMA citation from PubMed record"
- PubMed* This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 35 million citations and abstracts for biomedical and life sciences literature.
PubMed links to full-text when they are available.
Creating an AMA citation from PubMed record
