The 11th Edition of the AMA Guide is now the primary version used in JCU. Please only use the 10th Edition of AMA if your lecturer has specifically asked you to do so.
Please note: The Skeleton Guide is a brief version of the guide for quick reference. See the other pages on this guide for more comprehensive information.
AMA (Vancouver) Skeleton Guide for JCU students
The following guidelines are based on the minimum requirements for AMA citations. AMA style requires this core information for each citation (additional details can be added where appropriate – see the relevant pages in the full JCU AMA guide).
Pay close attention to the punctuation use in these examples – including case, italics, the order of dates and spaces.
Journals
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Books (whole book)
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Book chapter
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Web pages
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AMA Style is a variation of the Vancouver system that is used by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and other publications by the AMA. We are currently following the 10th edition of the AMA style guide.
AMA is a documentary-note style, which means you put a number in your text to cite sources of information and the reference list is in numerical order.
In text citations are in superscript1 and in order of citation (the first citation is 1 the next is 2). If you use the same source again, you keep the same number (the source you used for the first citation is always 1, even if you use it again after 6).
See the page on In Text Numbering for more detail.
If you are using EndNote, you can use the JAMA style, but we have created a style to avoid some problems with that style. See the information on this page: AMA and EndNote.
General Notes:
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