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JAMA Referencing Style:  Reference list

UON Library guide to JAMA Referencing Style for UON staff and students

General rules for the reference list

 

  • The reference list appears at the end of the document and includes only the sources cited in-text.
  • Reference list entries appear in the same order as cited in-text, arranged numerically by citation number.
  • Reference list entries are not indented. 
  • List the author names in the order they appear on the publication.
  • Where there are 6 or fewer authors, list all author names. 
  • Where there are 7 or more authors, list the first 3 authors followed by et al.
  • Enter surname (family or last name) first, followed by initials for each author.
  • Initials follow the surname of authors, no spaces or full-stops appear between initials, for example, Smith CK.
  • Treat hyphened initials as two initials regardless of capitalisation, for example, Ka-Wai Tam will be Tam KW; Hyun-seok Kim will be Kim HS.
  • Roman numerals and abbreviations for Junior (Jr) and Senior (Sr) follow authors’ initials, for example, Roe JP III, Coe RT Jr.
  • Capitalise surnames and enter spaces as they appear on the publication. For example, Van Den Hoffer or van der Hoffer.
  • Place a comma and space between each personal name.
  • Use a semicolon (not a comma) to separate a corporate author, for example, Smith J; World Medical Association.
  • Do not use and or & to separate the last two authors.
  • Do not include the article The before the name of any corporate author.
  • Anonymous should not be used in a reference unless that word was published in the work’s byline.
  • Capitalise article and chapter titles sentence case
  • Italicise and capitalise the titles of books and journals headline style.
  • ​If a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is available for your source, cite the DOI instead of URL.

Sample reference list

 

  • Reference list appears at the end of the document and includes only the sources cited in-text.
  • Reference list entries appear in the same order as cited in-text by citation number.
  • Reference list entries are not indented.

See more at the general rules for reference list tab above.

 

References

1.    Gammage B. Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia. Allen & Unwin; 2012.

2.    Obama B. United States health care reform: progress to date and next steps. JAMA. 2016;316(5):525-532. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.9797

3.   Akuhata-Huntington Z, Foster S, Gillon A, et al. COVID-19 and Indigenous resilience. Higher Education Research and Development. 2020;39(7):1377-1383. doi:10.1080/07294360.2020.1823327

4.   Fatmawati, Dewantara JA. Social resilience of indigenous community on the border: belief and confidence in anticipating the spread of COVID‐19 through the Besamsam custom in the Dayak community. J Community Appl Soc Psychol. 2022;32(6):1216-1233. doi:10.1002/casp.2611

5.    Hunter E. Aboriginal Health and History: Power and Prejudice in Remote Australia. Cambridge University Press; 1993. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511518188

6.    Boulton J, ed. Aboriginal Children, History and Health: Beyond Social Determinants. Taylor & Francis Group; 2016. doi:10.4324/9781315666501.

7.    Borrows J, Chartrand LN, Fitzgerald OE, Schwartz R, eds. Braiding Legal Orders: Implementing the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Centre for International Governance Innovation; 2019.

8.    Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation. The Australian Immunisation Handbook. 11th ed. Australian Government Dept of Health and Ageing; 2018-.  Updated May 18, 2022. Accessed February 14, 2023. https://immunisationhandbook.health.gov.au/

9.   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. International Group on Indigenous Health Measurement. AIHW. Updated January 11, 2022. Accessed 19 January 2023. https://www.aihw.gov.au/our-services/international-collaboration

10.   Kennedy J. Welcome to Country? TED Talks. YouTube. November 13, 2018. Accessed January 25, 2023. https://youtu.be/BdYmSByzrL8

11.   Zubrick SR, Lawrence D, de Maio J, Biddle N. Testing the Reliability of a Measure of Aboriginal Children's Mental Health: An Analysis Based on the Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey. Australian Bureau of Statistics; 2006.  ABS cat no 1351.0.55.011. Accessed January 1, 2023.    https://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/subscriber.nsf/

12.    Rudolph KD, Flynn M. Depression in adolescents. In: Gottlib IH, Hammen CL, eds. Handbook of Depression. 3rd ed. Guilford Press; 2014:391-​409.

13.   Middleton R. Lennon, John Ono (1940–1980). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press; 2017. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31351.

14.   Cao Y, Steffey S, He J, et al. Medical image retrieval: a multimodal approach. Cancer Inform. 2014;13(suppl 3):125-36. doi:10.4137/cin.S14053

15.   Champigneulle B, Merceron S, Lemiale V, et al. What is the outcome of cancer patients admitted to the ICU after cardiac arrest? results from a multicenter study. Resuscitation. 2015;92(7):38-44. doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2015.04.011

16.   Allison MA, Hurley LP, Markowitz L, et al. Primary care physicians' perspectives about HPV vaccine. Pediatrics. 2016;137(2):e20152488. doi:10.1542/peds.2015-2488

17.   Global Burden of Disease Cancer Collaboration. The global burden of cancer 2013. JAMA Oncol. 2015;1(4):505-27. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2015.0735

18.   Guggenheim JA, Williams C; UK Biobank Eye and Vision Consortium. Role of educational exposure in the association between myopia and birth order. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2015;133(12):1408-14. doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2015.3556

19.   Incorrect percentages in the abstract. JAMA Oncol. 2017;3(12):1742. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2017.4368

20.   Clun R. Floods cost economy $5 billion last year. Sydney Morning Herald. January 12, 2023:3. Accessed January 13, 2023. https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/floods-cost-economy-5-billion-last-year-20230112-p5cc1t.html

21.    Patrias K, Wendling D, ed. Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers. 2nd ed. National Library of Medicine (US); 2007-. Updated October 2, 2015. Accessed January 9, 2023. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

22.    Loscalzo J, Fauci AS, Kasper DL, Hauser SL, Longo DL, Jameson JL. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. 21st ed. Vol 2. McGraw Hill; 2022.

23.    Alberts B, Johnson A, Lewis J, Raff M, Roberts K, P W. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 5th ed. CD ROM. Garland Science; 2008.

24.    Berman A, Frandsen G, Snyder S, et al. Kozier & Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing: Concepts, Process and Practice. 5th Australian ed. Pearson Australia; 2021.

25.   American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 5th ed. American Psychiatric Association; 2013.

26.   Flaws B, trans. The Classic of Difficulties: A Translation of the Nan Jing. 3rd ed. Blue Poppy Press; 2004.

27.   Southey, R. The Life of Nelson. Blackie; date unknown.

28.   Boushey CJ. Application of research paradigms to nutrition practice. In: Coulston AM, Boushey CJ, Ferruzzi MG, eds. Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease. 3rd ed. Academic Press; 2013:99-​105. doi:10.1016/C2010-0-69615-5

29. Jackson LG. Prenatal diagnosis: Down syndrome or more? Hum Mutat. 2017;38(7):749. doi:10.1002/humu.23242

30.   Musch DC, Janz NK, Leinberger RL, Niziol LM, Gillespie BW. Discussing driving concerns with older patients, II: vision care providers' approaches to assessment. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2013;131(2):213-218. doi:10.1001/2013.jamaophthalmol.106

31. Livingston G, Huntley J, Sommerlad A, et al. Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission. The Lancet. 2020;396(10248):413-446. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30367-6

32. Kehoe H, Schütze H, Spurling G, Lovett R. Development of a decolonising framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy analysis in Australia. International Indigenous Policy Journal. 2022;13(3). doi:10.18584/iipj.2022.13.3.11269

Abbreviations used in JAMA style

 

The following abbreviations are used in the JAMA style.

Please note: where confusion may result, spell out the word instead.​

  • Title of journals may be abbreviated. For accepted abbreviations see
    • www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals [search by title, abbreviation, or ISSN].
    • Please note: 
      • never abbreviate journal titles consisting of a single word.
      • do not abbreviate journal titles in character-based languages.
  • The names of months are generally not abbreviated. However, in tables and figures, the month may be abbreviated using the first 3 letters to conserve space.  
  • See chapter 13.0 Abbreviations of the AMA Manual for more information if needed.

 

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