AMA Style Guide

The American Medical Association (AMA), both a professional organization and a publisher, establishes citation style rules to encourage accuracy and consistency in scholarly communication. 

This guide was created as a supplement to the AMA Manual of Style (11th edition) for our students at National University and addresses the most common style questions and formatting issues. For more specific information, please refer to directly to your AMA Manual of Style. 

​Here are just a few of the changes made to new AMA guide:

e words and web words 

• In line with contemporary usage, they have removed the hyphen in email and now lowercase internet and website. 

Grammar:

• Grammar update: singular “they” permitted as a singular pronoun when rewriting the sentence as plural would be awkward or unclear.

References:

• Publisher location no longer required 
• DOI: When a DOI is included for journal references, no period follows
• URL will be the last item, following dates posted/updated/accessed. No period follows it. 

For more updates, please check out JAMA Network's What's new in AMA style?