AMA Manual of Style (10th Edition)
For decades indispensable, the AMA Manual of Style continues to provide editorial support to the medical and scientific publishing community. Since the 1998 publication of the 9th edition, however, the world of medical publishing has rapidly modernized, and the intersection of research and publishing has become ever more complex. The 10th edition of the AMA Manual of Style brings this definitive manual into the 21st century with a broadened international perspective. In doing so, the 10th edition has expanded its electronic guidelines, with the understanding that authors now routinely submit articles through online systems and often cite Web-only content. Ethical and legal issues receive increased attention, with detailed guidelines on authorship, conflicts of interest, scientific misconduct, intellectual property, and the protection of individuals' rights in scientific research and publication. The new edition examines research ethics and editorial independence and features new material on indexing and searching as well as medical nomenclature. The JAMA Network, one of the most respected groups of medical publications in the world, have lent members of their expert staff of professional journal editors to the committee that has produced this edition. Extensively peer-reviewed, the 10th edition provides a welcome and improved standard for the growing international medical community. More than a style manual, this 10th edition offers invaluable guidance on how to navigate the dilemmas that authors and researchers and their institutions, medical editors and publishers, and members of the news media who cover scientific research confront in a society that has thrust these issues center stage. Also available in an online version!
Books: Allotment gardening : An organic guide for beginners. Devon, England: Green Books, Ltd.; 2005.
Book Chapter: The new organic grower. Gardening When It Counts. Westport, CT: Greenwood; 1995: 219-223.
Book with an Editor: Gardening When It Counts. Westport, CT: Greenwood; 2001.
Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses: Profiles of personal agency: Ethnocultural variations in self-efficacy beliefs [dissertation]. Urbana-Champaign, IL:University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 1999.
eBook: The Medical Basis of Psychiatry. 3rd ed. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2008.http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ebooks/ebc/9781597452526. Accessed June 4, 2009.
Journal Article or Magazine Article: Molecular coupling of Xist regulation and pluripotency. Science.2008;321(5896):1693-1695. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/321/5896/1693. Accessed June 4, 2009.
(Abbreviate the title of the journal according to PubMed.)
Discretionary hospitalization of nursing home residents with and without alzheimer’s disease: a multilevel analysis. J Aging Health. 2005;17(2):207-238.
Journal or Magazine Article (Database): If the article has a DOI (digital object identifier), give that number at the end instead of the URL. If there is no DOI, instead give the URL and the date of access (Accessed: date). Do not include the database name.
Discretionary hospitalization of nursing home residents with and without alzheimer’s disease: a multilevel analysis. J Aging Health. 2005;17(2):207-238. doi: 10.1177/0898264304274302.
Website: Organic foods: Are they safer? More nutritious? The Mayo Clinic. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/organic-food/NU00255. Published December 20, 2010. Accessed March 13, 2008.
List as many of the following elements as are available: author, the name of the webpage, the name of the entire website, the URL,the published date, updated date, and the date you accessed it.
Videos:
Has an author: What is information literacy [Video]. YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeopJX5jJV8.Published March 14, 2007. Accessed April 30, 2010.
Has no author: Slingshot fun [Video]. YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCmZYce0J2E. Published January 29, 2007. Accessed April 30, 2010.
For videos, provide the author only if you are sure that person created the video. Do not list the person posting the video online as the author. If you are unsure, treat the citation as having no author.
Blog: Bernstein M. Bioethics Discussion Blog [Internet]. Los Angeles: Maurice Bernstein. 2004 Jul -[cited 2007 May 16]. Available from: http://bioethicsdiscussion.blogspot.com/.
General Rules
(Source: Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Government Reports are treated the same as an electronic journal and book reference.
Example:
WomensHealth.gov. Statistics: autoimmune diseases. http://www.womenshealth.gov/statistics/statistics-by-topic/autoimmune-diseases.cfm. Updated June 17, 2009. Accessed January 11, 2012
U.S. Government Accountability Office. Reported Status of Department of Defense's Enterprise Resource Planning Systems. GAO-12-565R. http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-565R. Published March 30, 2012. Accessed April 2, 2012
