Citing References
AMA
AMA Manual of Style, 11th ed.
Used by many medical journals.
Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers, 2nd ed. 2007, updated 2015.
Citing Medicine provides assistance to authors in compiling lists of references for their publications, to editors in revising such lists, to publishers in setting reference standards for their authors and editors, and to librarians and others in formatting bibliographic citations.
APA
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th ed. 2019
Known as the “APA Manual,” this is used most frequently in the social sciences. The manual describes all elements of a research paper, and discusses the conventions of manuscript preparation, including punctuation, quoting sources, tables and statistical material, and the reference list.
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