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AMA Citation

A guide to citing sources according to American Medical Association's Manual of Style

Book Citation Notes & Format

For more information see section 3.12 in the AMA Manual of Style, 11th ed.

Book references no longer require the publisher location as part of the citation. You need only list the publisher name.

For e-books, prefer DOIs to URLs when available. No access date is needed for DOIs, but an access date is needed for URLs. Neither DOIs nor URLs should be followed with a period.

For formatting for multiple authors and group authors, see the author name guidelines.

Author(s). Title of book. [Edition no. if not 1st.] Publisher; Year. doi:xx.xxxx OR Accessed [date]. URL

Edited Book as a Whole

See the Chapters in Books tab for information on citing specific chapters in an edited book.

  1. Youngberg JA, ed. Lake CL, Roizen MF, Wilson RS, associate eds. Cardiac, Vascular, and Thoracic Anesthesia. Churchill Livingstone; 2000.

Monographs

Monographs are books by a single author or set of authors who compose the whole text, as opposed to edited books where each chapter is by a different author under the organization of an editor or editors.

  1. Ellis H, Lawson A. Anatomy for Anaesthetists. 9th ed. Wiley Blackwell; 2014.

E-Books

  1. Kerr A, Key Chekar C, Ross E, Swallow J, Cunningham-Burley S. Personalised Cancer Medicine: Future Crafting in the Genomic Era. Manchester University Press; 2021. Accessed July 21, 2022. https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/63656

  2. Heffernan T, ed. The Impact of Active and Passive Smoking upon Health and Neurocognitive Function. Frontiers; 2016. doi:10.3389/978-2-88919-977-8