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AMA 11th Edition Citation Guide

Web Content

Use this format if the information lives entirely online, and it is not a book, journal, drug monograph or other work with its own pattern. (This is used mostly for web sites, home pages, information pages in PDF format, video or audio files on the internet, etc.) Note: If the PDF has an ISBN, then the work is technically an electronic book, not a webpage.

You will need (minimum information in bold):

  • Author(s) (if given)
  • Title of page or object (e.g., YouTube video) (sentence case - not in italics)
  • Name of the website (if different from the page - Title Case, not in italics)
  • Published date (at least year, if available) OR
  • Updated date (if different to published date - at least year, if available)
  • Accessed date
  • URL

Standard Web Content Pattern

Author AA, Author BB. Title of page or object. Title of web site. [Published] Month DD, YYYY. [OR] Updated Month DD, YYYY. Accessed Month DD, YYYY. URL.

Examples

Pharmacy ownership in Queensland. Queensland Health. Updated September 1, 2021. Accessed January 10, 2022.https://www.health.qld.gov.au/system-governance/licences/pharmacy/pharmacy-ownership/queensland
Department of Health & Human Services. Anaphylaxis. Better Health Channel. Updated August, 2014. Accessed August 31, 2020. https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/ConditionsAndTreatments/anaphylaxis
Food allergy or intolerance? Allergy and Anapylaxis Australia. Updated January 2017. Accessed August 31, 2020. https://allergyfacts.org.au/allergy-anaphylaxis/food-allergy-or-intolerance
Zika virus. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. January 26, 2016. Updated November 20, 2019. Accessed September 8, 2020. https://www.cdc.gov/zika/
University of California Television. Ketogenesis and Fasting: Fuel for the Brain. YouTube. August 14, 2020. Accessed August 31, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H33vuQLIiXE&feature=emb_logo
Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS). John Hopkins Medicine. Date unknown. Accessed September 24, 2023. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/postural-orthostatic-tachycardia-syndrome-pots

Notes

  • For web pages in which there is no listed author for the information on that page, and the "authors" of the site and the name of the site are identical, treat the page as if it has no author and begin with the title of the page (for example, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention is both the name of the site and the name of the organization responsible for the information on that site).
  • If the name of the site and the name of the corporate author is different then list the name of the corporate author in the author position and the name of the site in the Site title position (for example, Better Health Channel is the name of the site, but the Department of Health & Human Services is responsible for the information on that site).
  • Do not include the word "Published" for the date of publication, but do include "Updated" if the page has told you it is an updated page. Do not include both a Published and Updated date - if both are available, only use the Updated date.