AMA Challenge

The following exercises are examples for practice of proper AMA citations. You do not need to
locate any resources unless specifically instructed to do so.

For each of the following sources, note any style/format error(s) and then, below each one, re-
write the item in red so that it properly complies with AMA. NOTE: some sources are incomplete
and may require you to go to a database to determine the required citation information.

When you are done, save this document with a new file name (AMA + group color) and
submit via the Discussion Forum in D2L for your small group (group leader should submit).

Section 1: In-text citations

Correct the in-text citations:

1. Tan et al. 4 studied the anterior myocardial territory (AMT) in comparison to the heart as an
organ at risk (OAR) for breast radiotherapy. [2 errors]

Correct the in-text citation and then follow with the correct reference citation.

2. The following is from the Radiobiology book by Travis published in 1989.

It is clear to those professionals in radiation oncology that ionizing radiation is a potentially

dangerous tool and therefore “imperative that all persons involved with any of the medical
applications of ionizing radiation have a basic understanding of its hazardous biological
potential” (Travis, 1989, p. 9). [3rd reference in paper]

Correct the in-text citation only:

3. The following is from an academic journal article with authors Stall, Zach, Ning, Ondos,
Arora, Shankavaram, Miller, Citrin, and Camphausen.

In a study by Stall, Zach, Ning, Ondos, Arora, Shankavaram, Miller, Citrin, and Camphausen
(2006), it was determined that flair and T2 weighted MRIs are used to delineate high grade
gliomas and surrounding edema for radiation treatment planning (Stall, Zach, Ning, Ondos,
Arora, Shankavaram, Miller, Citrin, and Camphausen, 2006, p. 1). [9th reference in paper]
Section 2: Writing AMA References

With the information provided below, write the correct AMA citation for the document in
question. Some entries have incomplete data. For these you will need to get complete citation
details from the UW-L Library database.

Look in EBSCOhost (or periodical databases) to locate these articles & provide the appropriate
citation: You definitely should be using http://dx.doi numbers per my tutorial

4. Lee, Wu, Jeng et al. published an article in 2009 about the skin dose impact from
immobilization devices and carbon fiber couch during IMRT treatment of the prostate.

5. Sharpe and Brock completed a study in 2008 about QA of serial 3D image registration and
fusion.

Use the Journals/Periodicals search to locate this article & provide the appropriate citation:

6. A fellow doctoral student tells you they found an article on doctoral students producing a
portfolio instead of a dissertation. They think they saw it in Innovations in Education &
Teaching International.

Use a book database like Amazon.com to locate these books & provide the appropriate citation:

7. You want to cite the book Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy by Kavanagh & Timmerman,
which is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins in Philadelphia, PA. Page 34.

8. You need to cite a chapter written Annette M. Coleman and Cara Zeidman in a book edited by
Charles M. Washington and Dennis Leaver. It was published in 2010 by Mosby in St. Louis,
Missouri. The title of the book is Principles and Practice of Radiation Therapy. The chapter is
titled “Electronic Charting and Image Management.” The chapter spans pages 564-578.
9. You want to cite the AMA Manual of Style (i.e. your AMA book!)

Use Google to locate these articles and provide the appropriate citation:

10. A reference used in your research is Guiding Principles for Diabetes Care: For Health Care
Professionals. It was printed in 2009 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is
identified by the # 09-4343. The URL for the document is
http://ndep.nih.gov/media/GuidPrin_HC_Eng.pdf

Note: I provided the URL to locate the document but it’s a government printed document. You
are being asked to cite the 2009 version. If you used the 2014 version, the title is slightly
different and the year is 2014.

11. A reference used in your research is an AAPM task group report (69) about radiographic film
for MV beam dosimetry.

12. http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/prostate

Section 3: Correcting AMA Mistakes

For the following, identify citation mistakes and correct them.

13. SPSS Advantage for Excel 2007. Chicago: SPSS, Inc.

14. Stanford University. (2009). Nanotubes + ink + paper = instant battery. Retrieved from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPTcQJPbGHw. Note: There is no exact example of this in
your AMA textbook. Refer to the “other media” section in AMA textbook on how this would be
formatted if it were a physical video and adapt the citation to a website citation format.
Section 4: Correcting Figures and Tables

15. Correct the figure you see below. This figure should be considered the FIRST figure listed in
a paper. (5 errors)

Figures

Figure 1: Isocenter placement in axial view.

16. Correct the table you see below. (Note: The AMA manual examples have the table caption inside the
actual table but we will not be following that particular format, therefore, that is not one of the
corrections.) (3 errors).

Patient Number Prescription Technique

1 20 3D-Conformal

2 20 IMRT

3 40 VMAT

4 30 IMRT

5 30 3D-Conformal

Table 1. The prescription dose and treatment technique are listed in the table.
17. Correct the line graph you see below. (3 errors)

Figure 1. This graph is representative of the dose per patient.