issues with AMA 10th Ed in Word (on Mac)

erikafjfrey
Hi there

Im having issues! I have my doc ready to send to the journal except I know realise that somehow Zotero has not formatted by references according to the AMA 10th Ed. which I have selected and refreshed many times. There is a space between the word and superscript citation which there isn't meant to be, there is no contraction with * and footnote as there is meant to be for more than 20 characters for one citation as there is meant to be, and the references are not within the punctuation parameters of the style guide too. This is a major headache to have to fix manually- is there any quick fix for me? Is it just my system, or is it the style guide for Zotero?
Thanks
  • damnation
    Space before superscript:
    Zotero only inserts the number. If you have a space there, then you had typed that. You'd need to remove those manually.

    Which journal are you submitting to? Do you have a link to the citation guidelines handy?
  • erikafjfrey
    Thank you so much for your help here.

    I can delete the spaces- thats annoying but not impossible. Its the other referencing issues that are really starting to worry me- things including not abbreviating the journal names to NLM abbreviations in the bibliography etc.

    I am submitting to Academic Pediatrics. I have a concise guide here for AMA 10th Ed.
    https://www.lynchburg.edu/wp-content/uploads/citation-style/Guide-to-AMA-Manual-of-Style.pdf

    There seems to be a bigger issue at hand here and I can't work it out.
  • damnation
    edited August 10, 2021
    The guidelines you linked to are for AMA10 from some random university in the US.
    I meant the guidelines of the journal where they say you have to use AMA10 and show the formatting.
    I am talking about this: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/academic-pediatrics/1876-2859/guide-for-authors

    All they state is to use AMA. Stick with our AMA11 style.

    As long as the references look like this, then you'll be fine:
    1. Campbell JL, Pedersen OK. The varieties of capitalism and hybrid success. Comp Polit Stud. 2007;40(3):307-332. doi:10.1177/0010414006286542

    If not, then you're either not using AMA11 or something else is wrong that we need to look into.


    We have a dependent style for Academic Pediatrics on the repository (it just links through to AMA11) by the way: https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=id:academic-pediatrics

    (Sample paper with correct typesetting of AMA11: https://www.academicpedsjnl.net/article/S1876-2859(20)30485-X/pdf )
  • erikafjfrey
    Ah- yeah, Ive done AMA 10, AMA 11, and JAMA and they all are not looking like you show here.

    Im going to try that style for Academic Pediatrics and see if that fixes my woes.

    Thank you so much for your help. 7 weeks in lockdown here and I am slowly losing my mind.
  • damnation
    When you change the citation style, do the citations actually update?
    Can you just create a fresh Word document and insert a sample citation, choose AMA11 and generate a bibliography?
    Where are you choosing the citation style?
  • erikafjfrey
    This is what I am getting in a new word doc when using Academic Pediatrics.

    1

    1. Gibson AN, Kaplan S, Vardell E. A Survey of Information Source Preferences of Parents of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 2017;47(7):2189-2204. doi:10.1007/s10803-017-3127-z

    This is what I am getting in a separate new word doc when using AMA11 (exact same as above)

    1
    1. Gibson AN, Kaplan S, Vardell E. A Survey of Information Source Preferences of Parents of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 2017;47(7):2189-2204. doi:10.1007/s10803-017-3127-z



    I'm choosing the style in Document Preferences-> citations styles -> ok.

  • erikafjfrey
    Do I need to manually add the NLM abbreviations to the field, or does it work it out from the full journal title?
  • damnation
    edited August 10, 2021
    see https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/journal_abbreviations

    Also, Academic Pediatrics is just a dependent style. All it does is link to AMA11. The result will be the same and that's what you can see.
    We have those dependent styles so users can just search for their journal and the system does the rest.
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