It is written by the editors of JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) and the JAMA Network journals and is most recently published by Oxford University Press.
[1][2] It specifies the writing, editing, and citation styles for use in the journals published by the American Medical Association.
[3] It covers a range of topics for authors and editors in medicine and related health fields.
The online edition also has regular updates (style points that have changed since the last edition or new guidance such as how to present new terms like COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 or address race and ethnicity in science publication),[4] a blog (AMA Style Insider), quizzes, and an SI unit conversion calculator.
AMA style is widely used, either entirely or with modifications, by many other scientific journals (including medical, nursing, and other health care journals), in many textbooks, and in academia (for papers written in classes).