Skip to Main Content

AMA

Citing an Article

Print

  • Laenen J, Roelants M, Devlieger R, Vandermeulen C. Influenza and vaccination coverage in pregnant women. Vaccine. 2015;33(18):2125-2131.

Article with Doi (add doi number)

  • Laenen J, Roelants M, Devlieger R, Vandermeulen C. Influenza and vaccination coverage in pregnant women. Vaccine. 2015;33(18):2125-2131. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.03.020.

Article without Doi (add database URL and access date)

  • Laenen J, Roelants M, Devlieger R, Vandermeulen C. Influenza and vaccination coverage in pregnant women. Vaccine. 2015;33(18):2125-2131. http://ajcc.aacnjournals.org/content/14/5/370.long. Accessed May 25, 2020.

Databases

General Format: Drug name. In: Database name  [online database]. Publication city, state: Publisher. Copyright date. URL. Accessed date.

Example for the database UpToDate

Bichet DG. Diagnosis of polyuria and diabetes insipidus. In: Post T, ed. UpToDate. Waltham, MA; 2020. www.uptodate.com. Accessed February 13, 2020.

Articles

IMPORTANT: Abbreviate the titles of the journals according to NLM

General Format:

Last name Surname. Title of the articleTitle of the journal. Date;volume(issue):page-page. doi#

Wang G, Hu FB, Mistry KB, et al. Association between maternal prepregancy body mass index and plasma folate concentration with child metabolic health. JAMA Pediatr. 2016;170(8):46-61. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics/2016.9787

No author:

  • Annual smoking attributable mortality, years of potential life lost and economic costs: United States 1995-1999. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2002;51:300-303.

1 to 6 authors (list all authors):

  • Mokdad AH, Bowman BA, Ford ES, Vinicor F, Marks JS, Koplan JP. The continuing epidemics of obesity and diabetes in the US. JAMA. 2001; 286(10): 1195-1200.

More than 6 authors (list 3 and add "et al."):

  • Harrison JJ, Wang J, Cervenko J, et al. Pilot study of a pharmaceutical care intervention in an outpatient lung transplant clinic. Clin Transplant. 2012;26(2):149-157. doi: 10.1002/jama.2016.9845

Authors representing a group:

  • Moher D, Schulz KF, Altman D; for the CONSORT Group. The CONSORT statement: revised recommendations for improving the quality of reports of parallel-group randomized trials. JAMA. 2001;285(15):1987-1991.

Group/corporate author:

  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Plan and operation of the third national health and nutrition examination survey, 1988-1994. Vital Health Stat. 1994; 1:1-307.