AMA Citation (11th Edition) Help

This guide was created as a basic guide for using AMA Manual of Style, 11th edition. Some of the health science fields such as physician assistants and physical therapy use the AMA Manual of Style.

Images and Figures

If the image was found online, as part of a website, treat it like a Web Object:

Author AA, Author BB. Title of page or object. Title of Website. URL. Published Month DD, YYYY or Updated Month DD, YYYY. Accessed Month, DD, YYYY.

 

If the image was found in a book, journal article or entry in a database, do not cite the image individually but give the citation details for the book/article/etc: 

Author of image (if given). Title of image. In: Author of electronic resource (if given). Electronic Resource Title [medium]. Version number (if given). Place of publication: Publisher; date of publication.


Example:

Arteriole and venule (slide 8.9). In: Gartner, LP, Hiatt, JL. Interactive Color Atlas of Histology [computer program]. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2000.

General Guideline for Images and Figures

  • If there is a credit for the image, use this as your author. If there is no credit for the image, use the authors of the web site if you believe they are responsible for the image.
  • If you are not sure who is responsible for the image, omit the authors and begin with the title of the image.
  • If the image does not have a title, give a description of the image (e.g.: Boy holding a fish [image]).

In-Text Table, Figure and Box Examples

Tables, Figures and Boxes are numbered sequentially, according to their order of appearance in the text and the type of figure (e.g.: Box 1, Box 2, Table 1, Table 2, Figure 1, Figure 2...)

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For more extensive information, you can look in the chapter on Tables, Figures and Multimedia in the AMA Manual of Style.