AMA Style: Journal Articles

1. AMA Style: Journal Articles Author names: last name followed by initials, punctuation between authors only. No degrees, such as MD, even if it’s listed in the journal. Collins FS, McKusic VA. Implications of the Human Genome Project for medical science. JAMA. 2001;285(5):540-544. Capitalize first word of a journal article only. The rest is not capitalized unless an official designation or name. Complete and exact article title. Up to 6 authors, list all 6. More than 6, list the first 3 only, then “et al.” which means “and others”. Hammel P, Couvelard A, O’Toole D, et al. Regression of liver fibrosis after biliary drainage in patients with chronic pancreatitis and stenosis of the common bile duct. N Engl J Med. 2001;344(6):418-423. Last part is inclusive page numbers. List year first. Use accepted abbreviations for journal names whenever possible. Italicise journal names, but not article titles. Next is volume number, with issue number in parentheses, if known.

2. AMA Style: Books Indicate if “edited by” someone. Italicise book title and capitalize all major words. Edition number if applicable. Bronzino JD, ed. The Biomedical Engineering Handbook. 2nd ed. Boca Raton FL: CRC Press and IEEE Press; 2000. Place of publication. Year of publication. Publisher name(s). If using a particular chapter in a book, it is listed first, and the title is treated the same as an article title. Mullen PD. Maternal smoking during pregnancy and evidence-based intervention to promote cessation. In: Spangler JG, ed. Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice. Philadelphia PA: WB Saunders; 1999:577-589. Full book title comes after specific chapter. Book title is italicised & capitalized as above. Page numbers of the entire chapter come last.

3. AMA Style: Online Journal Refs. Author and title as usual Schneider LS. Estrogen and dementia: insights from the Women’s Health Initiative Memory Study. JAMA [serial online]. 2004;291(24):3005–3007. Available at: http://jama.ama-assn.org. Accessed July 22, 2004. Include all volume and page information for print journals. Indicate online status if accessed online. Dehn R. APAP honors student writer and faculty researchers. APAP Update [serial online]. July 2004. Available at: http://www.apap.org/0704docs/0704awards.htm. Accessed July 21, 2004. Provide either journal web site (general url) or actual page of article (longer, specific url). Indicate volume number; page number acceptable but not needed for primarily online newsletters and other publications.

4. AMA Style: Online Text Refs. UpToDate title is treated as a chapter title Rick ME. Classification and pathophysiology of von Willebrand disease. UpToDate Online. Wellesley, MA; 2004 [update 12.3, 2004]. Available at: http://www.uptodateonline.com. Accessed November 12, 2004. Title of textbook (UpToDate is an online texbook) Web site location Author and chapter title as usual Tochner ZA, Lehavi O, Glatstein E. Radiation bioterrorism. In: Kasper DL, Braunwald E, Fauci AS, et al., eds. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. 16th ed. [text online] New York, NY; 2005:1294–1300. Available at: http://www3.accessmedicine.com/. Accessed November 12, 2004. Page numbers of the chapter if known Indicate that text was accessed online rather than in print

5. AMA Style: Web Page Refs. Title of page. Owner, author of page. World Health Organization. Public Health Mapping. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization. Available at: http://www.who.int/csr/mapping/en/. Accessibility verified July 21, 2004. Place of publication if also available in print format (if known). Introduce URL this way. Rose E. Dr. Rose’s Peripheral Brain. Available at: http://staff.washington.edu/momus/PB/tableofc.htm. Accessed July 21, 2004. Complete URL. Must use an accepted method to indicate last date you looked at the web page.