The AMA style, developed by the American Medical Association, is a format used for citation. This is used to cite references that you used in writing your research papers. You can use the AMA style in writing your documents or papers on medicine, health, and science-related topics. This style is more frequently used by medical journalists, medical practitioners, and medical students when they do their research.
Guidelines on the AMA format
Sources are enumerated at the end of the paper. The sources are listed based on their chronological appearance on the paper. Every entry is numbered and not bulleted. And the citation elements are separated by periods.
Rules in citation
In the case when some elements are not present, just proceed to the next element in the chronology. You can only put the page number if you cited a text in a specific page. When you write the author’s name, put the last name first, followed by a comma, then the first name and the middle initial last.
Chronology of elements for book citations
In book citations, you have to put the author’s name first on the list, then the chapter title, the editor’s or the translator’s name, the book title, volume number, book edition, the place of publication, book publisher, copyright year, and lastly, the page numbers.
Chronology of elements for journal citations
For journal articles, the article title and subtitle comes first, followed by the abbreviated name of the journal; then, comes the year of publication. What come next are the volume number and then the supplement number. Last, you have to input the page number.
In journal articles, you don’t have to write the first name of the writer. Just write the last name, the first name initial, and the middle initial.
Chronology of elements for Internet sources
For sources gathered from the Internet, the necessary elements are the author’s name, the article or the name of the web page, the URL source, and the date of accession.
Rules in citing Internet sources
Although citing online sources is not advised, it is now acceptable in the AMA style. When the source is an abstract of the study or from an online journal, you have to put it inside brackets. Never forget to include the notation of the online journal you cited.
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