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The document provides guidelines for AMA citation style, including what content needs to be cited, paper formatting, in-text citations using superscript numbers, reference list formatting, and examples of reference list entries for different source types such as journal articles, books, book chapters, and websites.

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AMA Quick Reference

The document provides guidelines for AMA citation style, including what content needs to be cited, paper formatting, in-text citations using superscript numbers, reference list formatting, and examples of reference list entries for different source types such as journal articles, books, book chapters, and websites.

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AMA Style

Quick Reference

WHAT NEEDS TO BE CITED?

ALL content that you didn’t create (words, ideas, video / audio content)

PAPER FORMAT

● Margins: 1 inch
● Line spacing: Single (double between paragraphs)
● Indent: ½ inch
● Font: 10 or 12 point / Times New Roman or Arial
● Page numbers: Upper right corner
● Headers: Left aligned

IN-TEXT CITATIONS - SUPERSCRIPT NUMBERS

● After the idea, fact, quotation


● Outside periods & commas
● Inside colons & semi colons
● If citing >1 for the same fact / quote:
○ Separate with a comma for 2 consecutive or multiple non-consecutive numbers. 1,3
○ Use a hyphen if using multiple sources with consecutive numbers.3-6

REFERENCE LIST

● Spacing: each reference = single spaced / double space between references


● Each reference is listed in the numerical order that it appears in the article / paper (NOT
alphabetical order)
● Format depends on type of source cited (see below)
● 1-6 authors: list each author in the order that their names appear
● More than 6 authors: lift first 3 authors followed by: et al.
● Sentence case: type as if writing a sentence (only first word capitalized)

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● Journal articles

○ Journal name: italicized & abbreviated as listed on the National Library of


Medicine database: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals

○ PRINT:

■ Author’s last name & Author’s first & middle initial. Title (sentence
case), Journal title (sentence case & italics), Year;volume(issue#):pp-
pp.

○ ELECTRONIC WITH DOI LISTED:

■ Author’s last name & Author’s first & middle initial. Title (sentence
case), Journal title (sentence case & italics), Year;volume(issue#):pp-
pp. DOI.

○ ELECTRONIC WITH NO DOI LISTED:

■ Author’s last name & Author’s first & middle initial. Title (sentence
case), Journal title (sentence case & italics), Year;volume(issue#):pp-
pp. URL. Date published. Date updated. Date accessed.

● Entire book

○ Author’s last names with first and middle initials. Title of Book (title case &
italics). Volume number and title. Edition number. Place of publication:
Name of publisher; Year of copyright.

● Book chapter

○ Chapter author’s names. Chapter title. In Book authors’ names. Book title
(title case & italics). Edition number. Place of publication: Name of
publisher; year of copyright;pp-pp.

● Websites.

○ Author(s). Title of web page (if not title, use name of site organization). Name
of website. URL. Date published. Date updated. Date accessed.

● See online references below for other source types

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REFERENCES & RESOURCES

WRITING RESOURCES FOR NAZARETH COLLEGE STUDENTS:


Nazareth College Writing Center Student Resources webpage: https://www2.naz.edu/writing-
center/online-tutorials

AMA Manual of Style 11th edition; A guide for authors and editors. 2020:
https://www.amamanualofstyle.com/page/About/about#about
https://guides.lib.purdue.edu/c.php?g=683613&p=4832375
AMA citation guide: formatting your paper. High Point University Library Guides.
http://guides.highpoint.edu/c.php?g=19503&p=110005

Citation help for AMA: formatting your paper. The College of St.
Scholastica.https://libguides.css.edu/c.php?g=41669&p=264927

AMA Style: Citing your sources: References Within Your Paper. USC libraries research guides.
https://libguides.usc.edu/c.php?g=293795&p=1956824

AMA Style. Purdue online writing lab.


https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/ama_style/index.html

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