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Citation Help for AMA: Book or eBook

Examples, explanations, and links to help you cite your sources in the AMA style

Multiple authors?

Example:
McGill I, Glenn JK, Brockbank A. The Action Learning Handbook: Powerful Techniques for Education, Professional 
Development and T
raining. Routledge Falmer; 2024.

Explanation:
Place a comma between authors and also a comma before eds. if editors are listed. End with a period. If there are more than six authors listed, give the first three authors followed by et al.

Editors?

Example:
Gibbs JT, Huang LN, eds. Children of Color: Psychological Interventions With Minority Youth. Jossey-Bass; 2025.

Explanation:
Place the word eds. after the editors with a comma in between. Follow by a period.

Edition?

Example:
Smith, S. Clinical Nursing Skills: Basic to Advanced Skills. 7th ed. Pearson Prentice Hall; 2023.

Explanation:
Do not indicate a first edition. Give edition number in ordinal format such as 2nd, 3rd and so on followed by ed. End with a period.

Example

Kolt GS, Andersen MB, eds. Psychology in the Physical and Manual Therapies. Churchill Livingstone; 2024.

Explanation

Author: Kolt GS, Andersen MB.
Last name first and then abbreviate first and middle names to just the first initial with no spaces, commas, or periods in between. Place a comma between authors. End with a period.

Title & subtitle of the book: Psychology in the Physical and Manual Therapies.
The title and subtitle are separated by a colon. Capitalize all major words of the title and subtitle. Italicize the title. End with a period.

Volume number and volume title (if applicable):
Give volume number preceded by Vol with no period. End with a period. Ex. = Vol 3.

Edition number  (if applicable):
Do not indicate a first edition. Give edition number in ordinal format such as 2nd, 3rd and so on followed by ed. End with a period. Ex. = 6th ed.

Publisher: Churchill Livingstone;
Shorten publisher's name to most concise form. Separate publisher from year of publication by a semi-colon.

Year of Publication: 2024.
List the year of publication, which appears on the title page or the title page verso (back side of title page). End the citation with a period.

If it is an eBook, continue with the following:

Date of access: Accessed May 12, 2025.
Date you accessed (viewed ) the page preceded by the word Accessed. End with a period.

URL:  https://www.r2library.com/Resource/Title/1585624365
Give the web address for the eBook and do not end citation with a period.

Reference: American Medical Association. AMA Manual of Style. 11th ed. Oxford University Press; 2020.