Citation Help for AMA: Home

This LibGuide is to help you use the American Medical Association (AMA) style 11th edition used by the health sciences. Here at The College of St. Scholastica, it is primarily used in the Department of Medical Science and Physical Therapy departments.

This guide can help you with the more fundamental tasks including:

1. Reference Formats - examples and explanations for citing your sources in the various formats for your References list
2. Formatting Your Paper - how to set up your paper including the margins, font, spacing, headings, tables and figures, your References list, and more
3. In-text Citations - how to cite your references in the body of your paper
4. Ethically Use Sources - information on the College's academic honesty policy, ways to avoid plagiarism, and Turnitin, an online tool to detect where sources need to be cited that is imbedded in Brightspace
5. EndNote - bibliographic citation software, which can help format your citations and is freely available for download to CSS faculty, staff, and students 
6. Writing Center Help -  links to the College's Rose Warner Writing and Critical Thinking Center, which is also available to graduate and distance students

Note: This guide is in no way a replacement for the actual manual, which is over 1,000 pages long. You can consult the manual by clicking on the eBook link to the right or using the hard cover copy in the Library on reserve.

Click on the link above and log in if prompted by using your CSS username and password (what you use for Brightspace and your CSS Gmail account) to open up the eBook for the AMA Manual.

Our subscription allows for up to three people to use this simultaneously. It is not recommended to download this eBook as it requires special software (Adobe Digital Editions) and automatically checks it out for 7 days thus taking away access from others. 

Better is to view individual chapters by clicking on their titles in the right hand column. Here is a link to a tutorial on eBooks for more help: 
https://resources.css.edu/library/docs/tutorials/ebooks.pdf

The copyright allows up to 50 pages to be downloaded at a time. Chapters that would be especially helpful to download are the following:

1. Chapter 2 on manuscript preparation (46 pages)
2. Chapter 3 on references (52 pages)