AMA 9th edition!

eamoone · April 6, 2021

Hi all, I am working with someone who is submitting to a journal that requires the 9th edition of the American Medical Association -- this is not on the Zotero style repository. Is it possible to get older versions of styles that are no longer available via the repository?
Thanks!

bwiernik · April 7, 2021

When was AMA 10th edition released?

eamoone · April 7, 2021

Well our library has a 2007 book for the AMA 10th edition!! So a bit ago!

adamsmith · April 7, 2021

Pretty sure we never had number 9, sorry. I'd guess it didn't change much between 9 and 10 -- what's the journal? Can you post the sample references here?

eamoone · April 7, 2021

The journal is: The Journal of Clinical and Translational Science

I would post some examples they have on their website but the bold won't display.
If you page down on this page (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-clinical-and-translational-science/information/instructions-contributors#submissionofmanuscripts ), you will see examples.

adamsmith · April 7, 2021

That's not AMA 9th at all, I'm afraid. I found this old description of AMA 9th and that looks about right: https://uwc.cah.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2015/04/CitingSourcesusingAMA.pdf

AMA never bolded sources, it certainly wouldn't have included DOIs in an edition that came out in 19998 (!), and it has always abbreviated journal titles.

I'd just start a regular style request (you can just continue here) as per https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/wiki/Requesting-Styles

bwiernik · April 7, 2021

(You might also suggest to the journal that they remove the description of the style as AMA 9th edition.)

eamoone · April 7, 2021

Thanks both of you. I will share this info with the person who asked about it.

damnation · April 20, 2021

If it does look like it though that you'll need a custom style for this journal, please provide the requested information here. Make sure to adapt the citations to the style with the metadata given in the guide. Just add the details into this thread.

https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/wiki/Requesting-Styles

eamoone · April 20, 2021

Thanks! I will get that done as soon as I can.

damnation · August 11, 2021

Style now available: https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=id:journal-of-clinical-and-translational-science

eamoone · August 11, 2021

Thanks for pointing this out!