CITING SOURCES USING JAMA CITATION STYLE

This handout is designed to provide a quick reference to using the American Medical Association style for citing
common information sources. For more information and examples of JAMA citation style please see the AMA
Manual of Style, 10e which is available as an eBook or is located in the Reference section of your Health
Sciences Library (Reference Collection - WZ 345 A511 2007).

CITING PRINT SOURCES

BOOKS

ONE AUTHOR
Author last name Author’s first initials. Title of Book. Place of publication:
Publisher; year.

Bickley LS. Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking.

Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott WIlliams & Wilkins; 2013.

MORE THAN ONE AUTHOR Author(s) separated by commas. Title of Book. Place of publication:
Publisher; year.
(List all authors if six or less,
otherwise list three followed by "et Gilman S, Newman SW. Manter and Gatz's Essentials of Clinical
al") Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology. Philadelphia: F.A. Davis; 2003
EDITED BOOK Author(s), eds. Title of Book. Place of publication: Publisher; year.

Smedley BD, Stith AY, Nelson AR, eds. Unequal Treatment: Confronting
racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Washington D.C.: National
Academy Press; 2003.
CHAPTER OR ARTICLE FROM A
Author(s) of article. Title of article. In: Editor's name, ed. Title of Book.
BOOK
Place of publication: Publisher; Year: Chapter or page number.

Cohen M. Chronic and Acute. In: Sapphire P, ed. The Disenfranchised.

Amityville, New York: Baywood Publishing; 2013: Chapter 12.

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

Please note: AMA style requires the use of standard abbreviations for all references, when applicable.
Abbreviations for many common medical journals can be found in the AMA Manual of Style (pp.473-479).
Additional abbreviations can be searched in the PubMed Journal Database
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals).

Example: New England Journal of Medicine -----> N Engl J Med

ONE AUTHOR
(do not include issue number or
month unless volumes are not
consecutively numbered)
Author. Article title. Journal Title. Month Year;Volume(Issue):Inclusive
page numbers.
Steward DL. Effectiveness of multilevel (tongue and palate)
radiofrequency tissue ablation for patients with obstructive sleep
apnea syndrome. Laryngoscope. 2004;114(12):2073-2084.

MORE THAN ONE AUTHOR Author(s) of article. Article title. Journal Title. Year;Volume:Inclusive
page numbers.
(list all authors if six or less, otherwise
list first three followed by “et al”) Hamilton GS, Naugthon MT. Impact of obstructive sleep apnoea on
diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Med J Aust. 2013;199:27-30.
CITING ELECTRONIC SOURCES

Please Note: The preferred citation style for an electronic journal uses a DOI (digital object identifier). The DOI
provides a persistent link to the electronic item and is considered to be more stable than a URL. If the DOI is not
given on the full text article or in the citation, use a DOI Lookup Tool (http://www.crossref.org/guestquery/) to
locate it or use the format for an electronic article without a DOI.

ELECTRONIC ARTICLES (ONLINE JOURNAL ARTICLES)

ELECTRONIC ARTICLES FROM Author(s). Title of article. Name of Journal. Year;vol(issue):pages.

ONLINE JOURNALS WITH DOI
AVAILABLE
(when using a DOI, no access
date or URL is needed)
ELECTRONIC ARTICLES FROM
ONLINE JOURNALS WITHOUT
DOI AVAILABLE
(the accessed date will often
be the only date available)
Epub AHEAD OF PRINT
ELECTRONIC ARTICLES FROM
ONLINE JOURNALS WITH DOI
AVAILABLE
(when using a DOI, no access
date or URL is needed)
Epub AHEAD OF PRINT
ELECTRONIC ARTICLES FROM
ONLINE JOURNALS WITHOUT
DOI AVAILABLE
(when using a DOI, no access
date or URL is needed)
doi:xx.xxxx.
Morrison G, Van Langenberg DR, Gibson SJ, Gibson PR. Chronic pain in
inflammatory bowel disease: characteristics and associations of a hospital-
based cohort. Inflamm. Bowel Dis. 2013;19(6):1210-1217. doi:
10.1097/MIB.0b013e318280e729.
Author(s). Title of article. Name of Journal. Year;vol(issue);pages.
URL. Published date. Updated date. Accessed date.
Thomas JL. Helpful or harmful? Potential effects of exercise on select
inflammatory conditions. Phys Sportsmed. 2013;41(4):93-
100. https://physsportsmed.org/psm.2013.11.2040. Accessed November 22,
2013.
Author(s). Title of article [published online ahead of print (add date)].
Name of Journal. Year;vol(issue):pages.
doi:xx.xxxx.
Shen S, Gehlert DR, Collier DA. PACAP and PAC1 receptor in brain
development and behavior [published online ahead of print October 23
2013]. Neuropeptides. 2013. doi: 10.1016/j.npep.2013.10.005.
Author(s). Title of article [published online ahead of print (add date)].
Name of Journal. Year;vol(issue):pages. URL. Published Date. Updated
Date. Accessed Date.
Klintwall L, Eldevik S, Eikeseth S. Narrowing the gap: Effects of intervention
on developmental trajectories in autism [published online ahead of print
November 8 2013]. Autism.
http://aut.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/11/07/1362361313510067.lon
g. 2013. Accessed November 8, 2013.

INTERNET BASED BOOK (eBOOK)

BOOK Author(s) of chapter/article. Title of article. In: Editor's name, ed. Title of Book. Edition.
CHAPTER/ARTICLE Place of publication: Publisher; Year: URL. Assessed date: Chapter or page number or
FROM AN section number.
INTERNET-BASED
BOOK(eBOOK) Fields HL, Martin JB. Pain: pathophysiology and management. In: Longo DL, Fauci
AS, Hauser SL, Kasper DL, Loscalzo J, Jameson JL, eds. Harrison's Principles of Internal
Medicine. 18th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2012.
http://www.accessmedicine.com.ezproxy.med.ucf.edu/resourceTOC.aspx?resourceID=4.
Accessed by November 22, 2013: 71-73.
CITING ELECTRONIC SOURCES

WEB PAGES

WEB PAGES Author or responsible body. Title of item cited. Name of website.
URL. Published date. Updated date. Accessed date.

World Health Organization. Philippines: Assistance and response after Typhoon Haiyan.
World Health Organization. http://www.who.int/features/2013/philippines-typhoon-
haiyan/en/index.html. Published November 2013. Accessed November 22, 2013

CITING OTHER ELECTRONIC SOURCES

ONLINE Author(s). Title of database [database online]. Location of publisher: Publisher Name; year
DATABASES of publication. URL. Accessed date.

Embase [database online]. Philadelphia PA: Elsevier; 2013.

http://www.embase.com.ezproxy.med.ucf.edu/home. Accessed November 25, 2013.

Porter RS, Kaplan JL. Merck Manual [database online]. Whitehouse Station, N.J.:Merck
Sharp & Dohme Corp.; 2012. Accessed November 25, 2013.
SOFTWARE Name of Computer Program [computer program]. Version if available. Location of
publisher: Publisher Name; year.
(includes
mobile apps Skyscape [computer program]. Marlborough, MA: Skyscape.com Inc; 2013.
and CDs)
Clinical Pharmacology [computer program]. Version 2.07. Tampa, FL: Gold Standard
Media; 2003.
ONLINE Author(s). Title of paper. Paper presented at: Name of meeting; Month, Year; Location. URL.
CONFERENCE Accessed date.
PROCEEDINGS /
PRESENTATIONS Baxley EG, Lawson-Johnson L, Vivier, P. Reducing health care disparities through
education. Paper presented at the AMA Accelerating Change in Medical Education
Conference; October, 2013; Chicago, IL. http://www.ama-assn.org/sub/accelerating-
change/pdf/disparities-baxley-lawsonjohnson.pdf. Accessed November 25, 2013.
CITING SOURCES WITHIN TEXT

GUIDELINES FOR CITING REFERENCES WITHIN TEXT

 Cite references that are retrievable in text, tables, and figures in consecutive order using superscript
Arabic numbers.
 Use commas to separate multiple citation numbers in text.
 Corresponding references should be listed in numeric order at the end of the document.
 Unpublished works and personal communications should be cited parenthetically (and not on the
reference list).
 Superscript numbers are placed outside periods and commas, and inside colons and semicolons.

Examples:

The report1 found that...

As has been noted previously,2
This argument was refuted in another study.3
Other reports4,5confirm these findings. (Note: Two sources are cited.)
"...as has been the conclusion of this author."6 (Note: Use after direct quotation.)
In recent reports1,3-5,9surgical outcomes have been...(Note: Multiple sources cited; not all are consecutive.)

You may cite the same source more than once by using the same Endnote number. However, when you
repeat a number, you should include a page number, in parentheses, next to the note number.

Example:

The data1(p44) disproves the previous assertion...

NEED MORE HELP?

 See AMA Manual of Style, 10e for more information and examples of citing electronic
sources.
 Visit the Citation Guide on Personal Librarian LibGuide at
http://guides.ucf.edu/com/hsl/yourlibrarian
 Visit your Health Sciences Library and get one-on-one help with your Librarian
 Contact Your Health Sciences Library anytime at medlibrary@ucf.edu

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