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This is the ninth in a series of blog posts about AMA style, which is designed to impart the basic rules for AMA citation style for different types of sources. This week our focus is the different AMA styles for citing unpublished materials and online conferences or presentations. To learn more about AMA style and this blog series, please see the first post.

Citing Unpublished Materials

At meetings, oral or poster presentations:

Format:

Author(s) (Last name, first and middle initials). Title of paper.  Paper presented at: Name of meeting; Date (Month, Year); Location (City, State or City, Country).

Example:

American Academy of Physical Education. Exercise and health: Fifty-fourth Annual Meeting. Paper presented at: 54^th American Academy of Physical Education Meeting; April 6-7, 1983; Minneapolis, Minnesota.*

*(This work has since been published but this is how it would have been cited in 1983 before it was published.)

Accepted by Publisher but not yet published:

Format:

For journal articles:

Author(s) (Last name, first and middle initials). Title. Journal Name. In press.

or for books:

Author(s) (Last name, first and middle initials). Title. Location of publication: publisher. In press.

Example:

Hoffman RJ, Wang VJ, Scarfone R.  Fleisher & Ludwig’s 5-minute pediatric emergency medicine consult. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. In press.

*(This work has since been published but this is how it would have been cited before it was published.)

See AMA Manual of Style for further details and examples.

Citing Online Conferences and Presentations

These are similar to above unpublished materials “presented at” references plus the URL and Accessed date:

Format:

Author(s) (Last name, first and middle initials). Title of paper.  Paper presented at: Name of meeting; Date (Month, Year); Location (City, State or City, Country). URL. Accessed date.

Example:

Beckerman B, Alley G.  Image informatics and analytics in biomedicine. Paper presented at: Biomedical Sciences and Engineering Conference; March 15-17, 2011; Knoxville, Tennessee. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5783452. Accessed October 13, 2011.

See AMA Manual of Style for further details and examples.

Check this blog post next week for the correct AMA citation style for software or software manuals, databases and legal references.

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This is the eighth in a series of blog posts about AMA style, which is designed to impart the basic rules for AMA citation style for different types of sources. This week our focus is the different AMA styles for citing serial publications; theses and dissertations; and secondary citations or quotations. To learn more about AMA style and this blog series, please see the first post.

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This is the seventh in a series of blog posts about AMA style, which is designed to impart the basic rules for AMA citation style for different types of sources. This week our focus is the different AMA styles for citing government publications in print and online. To learn more about AMA style and this blog series, please see the first post.

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This is the sixth in a series of blog posts about AMA style, which is designed to impart the basic rules for AMA citation style for different types of sources. This week our focus is the different AMA styles for citing transcripts of radio and TV programs as well as audiotapes, videotapes and DVD recordings. To learn more about AMA style and this blog series, please see the first post.

Citing Audiotapes, Videotapes and DVDs

Format:

Author (Last name, first and middle initials) or host if no author. Title(in italics, capitalize main words) [media format such as DVD etc.]. Location of publication (city, state; city, country): Publisher or Distributor; date.

Example:

Harrison, G., Benedict, J. The History of Science: What is the Secret of Life? [DVD] New York, NY: Films for the Humanities & Sciences; 2011.

Citing a Transcript for a Radio or TV Program

Format:

Title of program (capitalize first word and proper names only) [transcript]. Name of TV or radio show (in italics). Name of TV or radio station. Date (Month date, year).

Example:

SGMD special edition: The frontlines of famine [transcript]. Sanjay Gupta MD. CNN television. August 13, 2011.

See AMA Manual of Style online for further information and examples.

Check this blog next week for the correct AMA citation style for government publications both online and in print.

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This is the fifth in a series of blog posts about AMA style, which is designed to impart the basic rules for AMA citation style for different types of sources. This week our focus is the different AMA styles for citing web sites. To learn more about AMA style and this blog series, please see the first post.

Citing a Web Site

Format:

Author (last name, first and second initial(s)). (There may not be an author.) Title of exact item cited if there is one otherwise use name of organization that publishes the web site. Name of the Web site (include the words “Web site” at the end). URL.(Make sure it works as close to publication as possible.) Published [date]. Updated [date]. Accessed [date]. *

*Provide as much of the above information as possible according to what is available on the Web site.  See AMA Manual of Style 10^thed Online for further examples for citing Web sites.

Example 1:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web site. http://www.cdc.gov/ Updated September 8, 2011. Accessed September 8, 2011.

Example 2:

Preventing suicide. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web site. http://www.cdc.gov/Features/PreventingSuicide/  Updated September 2, 2011. Accessed September 8, 2011.

Check this blog post next week for the correct AMA citation style for transcripts of radio or TV programs as well as audiotapes, videotapes and DVD recordings.

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This is the fourth in a series of blog posts about AMA style, which is designed to impart the basic rules for AMA citation style for different types of sources.  This week our focus is the different AMA styles for books in print with one or more authors, e-books and books on CD-Rom. To learn more about AMA style and this blog series, please see the first post.

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This is the third in a series of blog posts about AMA style, which is designed to impart the basic rules for AMA citation style for different types of sources.  This week our focus is the different AMA styles for print and online newspaper articles. To learn more about AMA style and this blog series, please see the first post.

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This is the second in a series of blog posts about AMA style, which is designed to impart the basic rules for AMA citation style for different types of sources.  This week our focus is the different AMA styles for print and online journal articles. To learn more about AMA style and this blog series, please see the first blog post.

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In academia, as a part of scholarly communication, you are required to gather, evaluate and use the works of others in your written projects.  To avoid plagiarism, it is necessary to credit your sources by citing the works of others used in your writing.  Different citation styles may be required depending on your professor or journal you are submitting to.  If you are uncertain, check with your professor or journal website manuscript submission guidelines to determine which style is required.

This series of posts is focused solely on one standard, the American Medical Association (AMA) citation style.  To use this style correctly when writing, it is important to learn a few basic rules for how to cite your sources.   AMA has different rules for each type of source you may need to cite.  These include encyclopedia articles or book chapters in print; journal articles both in print and electronic; newspaper articles in print and electronic; books with one or more authors; eBooks or CD-Rom; web sites; transcript of radio or TV programs; audiotapes, videotapes or DVD recordings; government publications in print or online; serial publications; theses and dissertations; unpublished materials; secondary citations or quotations; email or Listserve messages; online conference proceedings or presentations; software or software manuals; databases; legal references and personal communications.  AMA citation rules will be posted every week for one of these sources, starting with print encyclopedia articles or book chapters.  Each post will give the correct format for the citation with an example.

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