AMA Writing Style - HFS 21500 - Introduction to Health & Fitness Sciences

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AMA Manual of Style by Cheryl Iverson (Editor); Stacy Christiansen (Editor); Annette Flanagin (Editor); JAMA and Archives Journals Staff (Editor)
Call Number: Reference Section R119 .A533 2007

ISBN: 9780195176339

Extensively peer-reviewed, the 10th edition provides a welcome and improved standard for the growing international medical community. More than a style manual, this 10th edition offers invaluable guidance on how to navigate the dilemmas that authors and researchers and their institutions, medical editors and publishers, and members of the news media who cover scientific research confront in a society that has thrust these issues center stage.

Some Sample AMA listings for a Works cited

Journal

Used the Print
Author(s). Article title. Journal Name. Year;vol(issue No.): inclusive pages.

Used the Online version
Author(s). Article title. Journal Name. Year;vol(issue No.): inclusive pages. URL. Accessed [date].

Books

Used the Print
Author(s). Book Title. Edition Number (if it is the second edition or above). City, State (or Country) of publisher: Publisher's name; copyright year.

Used the Online version
Author(s). Book Title. Edition Number (if it is the second edition or above). City, State (or Country) of publisher: Publisher's name; copyright year. URL. Accessed [date].

Used from a Web Site
Author(or, if no author i available, the name of the organization responsible for the site). Title (or, if no title is available, the name of the organization responsible for the site). Name of the Web site. URL. Accessed [date].

HFS 21500 - Introduction to Health & Fitness Sciences: AMA Writing Style

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