Medical Laboratory Science: AMA Style 11th Edition

Melka R, Farnsworth CW, Lin Y. An interference that makes you blue?. Clin Chem. 2024;70(10):1294-1295. doi:10.1093/clinchem/hvae099

Keow J, Kwan KF, Hedley BD, Hsia CC, Xenocostas A, Chin-Yee B. Merkel cell carcinoma mimicking acute leukemia. Int J Lab Hematol. 2024;46(5):761-763. doi:10.1111/ijlh.14262

Alex V, Moodley M. Vibrio cholerae bacteraemia: a case report on an unusual presentation. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2025;111(3):116685. doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2025.116685

• References are cited within the text using superscript numbers.
• Reference numbers go outside of periods and commas and inside colons and semicolons.
• Only use authors' last names in your paper.
• Examples:
  • As stated in the awesome case study,⁴ 
  • Data from the cool research reports is summarized below ^2-5: 
  • The weird study by Jones⁷ supported our findings.

Put references in the order they appear in your paper.

Authors

• Authors are written with the author's last name first, and then initials with no periods.
• If there are 6 or fewer authors, separate names with commas.
• If there are more than 6 authors, give the first 3 followed by "et al."
• Examples:
  • Hunter AW, Westman FL.
  • Hunter AW, Westman FL, Keating, ME, et al.

Titles and Subtitles

• Capitalize the first word, proper nouns, names of clinical trials, and abbreviations that are normally capitalized (DNA, EKG, etc.)
• A colon and space separates the title and subtitle. Subtitles begin with a lowercase letter (unless it's a proper noun).
• Examples:
  • Exciting new medical discovery from the Mayo Clinic: results from a case report.
  • A brilliant case study using all the tests: EKGs, MRIs, and CT scans.

Journal Names

• Journal names should be abbreviated and italicized.
• Abbreviations can be found by typing in the name of the journal at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals/
• Examples:
  • Am J Physiol
  • Med Lab Sci

Next, all the Numbers

• Year;Volume(Issue):FirstPage-LastPage.
• Example:
  • 2024;57(6):96-102.

DOI

• This is the last element! Do not put a period after it.
• Examples:
  • doi:10.1186/s13256-023-04002-z
  • doi:10.30699/ijp.2023.551854.2878

If you find an article in PubMed, you can click the Cite button on the right-hand side. Then, click the format button in the bottom-right corner of the window to choose AMA format. Click the copy button on the bottom-left to copy the citation. ALWAYS DOUBLE CHECK YOUR COPIED CITATIONS! They are pretty good, but often get the capitalization wrong.