Verify AMA citations
AMA is the standard for clinical and biomedical writing: numbered superscript references with terse, abbreviated journal names. The highest-stakes failures are a citation that resolves to an unrelated study and a reference to a paper that has since been retracted — both of which we check explicitly, including against Retraction Watch data.
Paste your AMA reference list
AMA reference anatomy
Author(s). Title. Journal Abbrev. Year;Volume(Issue):pages. doi
LeCun Y, Bengio Y, Hinton G. Deep learning. Nature. 2015;521(7553):436-444. doi:10.1038/nature14539
What goes wrong in AMA bibliographies
- Journal abbreviations that don't correspond to any indexed journal
- Citing retracted clinical studies without the retraction notice
- Volume/issue/page sets that don't match the real article
A AMA citation we would flag
Wakefield AJ, Murch SH, Anthony A, et al. Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children. Lancet. 1998;351(9103):637-641.
Partial — real source, fields differ
The article is real and locatable — but it was retracted. We surface a retraction warning alongside the match so it is never cited as sound evidence.