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BibTeX to AMA Converter

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Paste or upload a .bib file and get a numbered AMA reference list, 11th edition, the style of JAMA and many medical journals. Copy it into your manuscript and the italics come with it.

How to convert BibTeX to AMA

Step 1

Add your BibTeX

Use Upload file, drop the .bib on the box, or paste the entries.

Step 2

Convert

AMA is already selected on this page.

Step 3

Copy

Copy all puts the numbered list on your clipboard, formatted.

References are numbered in the order of your .bib. AMA numbers them in the order they are first cited, so put the entries in that order first.

What an AMA reference looks like

  1. Zeta Y, Bengio Y, Hinton G. Deep learning. Nature. 2015;521(7553):436-444. doi:10.1038/nature14539
  • Authors: surname and initials, no full stops. Up to six are listed; with seven or more, the first three and "et al."
  • Article titles in sentence case, which the converter does not do for you: titles come out as your .bib has them. Write them in sentence case in the .bib, with names and acronyms in braces ({Bayesian}, {DNA}).
  • Journal in italics, then year;volume(issue):pages with no spaces.
  • DOI at the end, written doi:.

Check these before you use the list

  • Journal abbreviations. AMA uses NLM abbreviations (N Engl J Med, JAMA). The converter prints the journal name in your .bib, so abbreviate it there.
  • In the text, AMA citations are superscript numbers in citation order.

Frequently asked questions

Both are numbered medical styles and look alike. AMA (JAMA and many US journals) writes the DOI and uses no spaces in "2015;521(7553):436-444"; Vancouver (the ICMJE / NLM style) differs in small punctuation details. Use the one your journal's author guidelines name. BibTeX to Vancouver does the other.

Yes, with the biblatex-ama package: \usepackage[style=ama]{biblatex}.

If an entry has a syntax error, the result lists it with its line number and reason, and the other entries still convert.

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