This AMA citation generator formats references in AMA style 11th edition, the standard for medical schools and for JAMA and its sister journals. Paste a DOI, PMID or article title and the generator retrieves the real record before formatting it. AMA strips punctuation from author initials and abbreviates journal titles to the NLM list, two details that are tedious to apply by hand across a long reference list.
Works with a DOI, ISBN, link, PubMed ID, BibTeX or RIS entry, or just the title. We detect which one it is.
Real American Medical Association (AMA) 11th edition references, formatted the way medicine coursework expects them.
Journal article
1. Smith JA, Jones BC, Alvarez M. Early mobilisation after cardiac surgery. JAMA Cardiol. 2024;9(4):331-339.
Book
2. Okafor N. Clinical Pharmacology. 3rd ed. Meridian; 2022.
Chapter in an edited book
3. Berg L. Sepsis recognition. In: Alvarez M, ed. Acute Care Medicine. Rowan Press; 2023:210-228.
AMA is a numeric style. Sources are numbered in the order they first appear and the number is reused on every later mention. The number is superscript and sits outside commas and full stops but inside colons and semicolons. The reference list is ordered numerically, not alphabetically.
Smith et al reported similar findings.¹
Citing a website in AMA needs the author or organisation, the page title, the name of the site, the publication or update date, an accessed date, and the URL. AMA writes the accessed date in full rather than abbreviating the month.
4. Air quality and health. World Health Organization. Updated March 11, 2024. Accessed August 19, 2026. https://www.who.int/example
Yes for references. AMA style is published by the American Medical Association and JAMA follows it, as do most AMA-family journals. What differs between individual journals is the manuscript template, not how references are written.
Yes. PubMed identifiers usually give the cleanest metadata for biomedical literature, including the NLM journal abbreviation AMA expects.
Both are numeric biomedical styles and they look similar. AMA uses superscript numbers and spells page ranges out in full; Vancouver commonly uses parenthetical numbers and abbreviates page ranges. Check which one your school specifies rather than assuming they are interchangeable.
Guidelines are cited like a corporate report with the issuing body as author and an accessed date. Preprints are cited with the server name and the preprint DOI, and AMA asks you to label them as preprints so a reader knows they are not peer reviewed.