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title: AMA Citation Generator — Free, From a DOI, PMID, or ISBN | Scholar Sidekick
description: Free AMA citation generator. Turn a DOI, PMID, PMCID, or ISBN into an AMA-style reference with NLM journal abbreviations and the doi: suffix. No signup.
doc_version: "1.1"
last_updated: "2026-08-18"
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# AMA Citation Generator

> HTML version: https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/ama-citation-generator

Generate references in AMA style — the format of the AMA Manual of Style (11th edition) used by JAMA and most US medical journals — from any supported identifier: DOI, PMID, PMCID, ISBN, arXiv ID, ISSN, ADS bibcode, or scholarly URL. Output includes the NLM journal abbreviation (N Engl J Med), the year;volume(issue):pages block, and the lowercase doi: suffix.

## What this tool does

Takes one identifier per line and returns one AMA-style reference per line. Metadata is fetched live from the registry each identifier belongs to (Crossref, PubMed, arXiv, OpenLibrary, NASA ADS), so the reference matches what the publisher has on file. Authors are listed as surname + initials, following the AMA Manual (11th edition) cutoff: all authors when six or fewer, the first three followed by et al. when seven or more.

## How to use

1. Open [the tool](https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/ama-citation-generator).
2. Paste the identifiers into the input, one per line.
3. Copy the references into your manuscript and number them in order of first citation, as AMA requires.

## Programmatic access

The same formatting is exposed via [`POST /api/format`](https://scholar-sidekick.com/docs) with `style: "ama"` (a builtin formatter, alongside `vancouver`, `apa`, `ieee`, and `cse`). 10,000+ further styles are available by CSL id. Anonymous access is free with a published rate limit.

## Zotero and Word

For Zotero, install "American Medical Association 11th edition" from the [Zotero Style Repository](https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=American%20Medical%20Association). To move references into a manager, export RIS with the [DOI to RIS converter](https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/doi-to-ris); for LaTeX, build the .bib file with the [DOI to BibTeX converter](https://scholar-sidekick.com/tools/doi-to-bibtex).

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