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AMA Citation

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

Data in Database Citation Notes & Format

For more information see section 3.15.8 in the AMA Manual of Style, 11th ed.

AMA supports using The Data Citation Group's Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles for guidance on citing data in databases.

In addition, AMA provides a standard format for citing data from online databases. Non-applicable elements can be excluded.

Author(s) (if given). Title of the database. Publisher or database host/owner; Year and/or version number. Updated [date]. Accessed [date]. URL

Data in Databases

  1. GenBank. National Center for Biotechnology Information; NCBI-GenBank Flat File Release 250.0. Updated June 15, 2022. Accessed August 12, 2022. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/
  2. Continuous Lidocaine Infusion for Management of Perioperative Burn Pain. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02059902. Updated July 3, 2018. Accessed August 12, 2022. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT02059902
  3. STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database. Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Accessed August 12, 2022. https://publicreporting.sts.org/search/acsd
  4. HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC). Human Gene Nomenclature database search engine. Updated August 11, 2022. Accessed August 12, 2022. https://www.genenames.org/