I used American Medical Association (AMA) style for my annotated bibliography. I had used this in graduate school for public health research papers, but it had been a few years so I needed to do my own research to remember how to properly cite articles. At first, I found some conflicting information, but after I continued my research, I was able to properly complete my annotated bibliography.
The following were the most commonly revised issues:
- Capitalization: Some examples I found showed only the first word in the journal article title capitalized and the rest of the key words were not, and some examples showed all the words capitalized, as they were in the article.
- Punctuation: I did not need to put periods after initials.
- Volume/Issue: It took some time for me to figure out how to include these.
- DOIs or URLs: I didn't add this in the first draft, but went back to do so after reviewing.
- Title: Some examples showed an italicized title, but a few didn't. I researched more and found out it should be italicized if it's an online journal article.
- Order: Items in the bibliography needed to be listed numerically, as they appeared in the text, not alphabetically.
I also found an AMA style guide that gave recommendations for using AMA style within the paper. These included adding page numbers to the document, and adding a header aligned with left margin.
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